Cold Hearted Princess

Chapter 23 New plan

I just realised that I didn’t even know where I was going, so I took my phone, and I checked the nearest train or bus station. One was there in about ten–fifteen minutes, so I walked on. I would have preferred to run, but I didn’t want all the attention on myself. I felt so scared, but I told myself to

move on.

I felt some kind of happiness when I reached the nearest bus station. I went in, and I checked the time tables. The next one left in ten minutes to San Francisco. I thought that would be fine for now. Actually, I was okay anywhere but in Los Angeles.

There weren’t too many people there, so I bought my ticket quickly, and I walked to the platform. The bus was at the bus stop, and I felt the happiness of freedoms. I had a small smile on my face when I felt a muscular arm grabbing me from behind.

I wanted to scream, but I couldn’t, as another hand pushed a wet cloth to my mouth and nose. It smelled weird, and I could feel instantly the heaviness of my eyelids. An unfamiliar power forced me to close them, and then everything went dark.

Seth

*Will you call me later?” Leah asked me with worry when I was ready to go. I held her in my embrace and I kissed her. Even if we were together since high school, she still couldn’t get used to this. She knew they were my priority, and she also knew that I was always coming back home to them. Years and years ago, I told her what to do if I wouldn’t tum up one day.

We both agreed that in that case the most important was to keep Ava safe. I bought a place in France, and she just needed to make a phone call to leave the United States in an hour.

She feared it, of course, but I knew she was strong enough to go through it. I promised her I would follow them as soon as possible, if I were still alive.

“Of course I will, don’t worry. I’m just going to see dad, probably he wants me to get a job done, then I’m coming home.”

“Why is it always you?”

y times. Why me?

a deep breath. This

I have a

from his childhood, and then

get done while he’s living his

it is. I

exactly as much as you. And he could let you have a rest sometimes. Would that

to smile. I held her cheeks in my palms and I kissed

back soon,

I let her go, and I walked out of the house. I sat in my car and

like this, he wanted to give me

1. me.

of it. Lily greeted me with a smile and motioned to me. My dad was waiting for

She was still so young, and she suffered a

was the one

enormous family, running a big organisation. They were really cruel. I have never met worse than them. Their family name was

They kept s

to try their drugs before they would have sold them, and they forced them to do things that others wouldn’t do. But if they refused or failed, they punished them in a terroristic way. Most of them started with the old leader, who

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Chapter 23 New plan

to play with them until he felt like he

said they cut her tongue out a few minutes ago, because she

laughing when they gave her to me for a