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?

deep breath. This question was in

have

childhood, and then

I was getting all the dodgy work to get done while he’s living his life happily. It was his life. I didn’t care, but I had a family that needed me, while he only had wheres

you know how it is. I

he knows exactly as much as you. And he could let

had to smile. I held her cheeks in

back soon,

out of the house. I sat in my car and turned the

like this, he

1. me.

to me. My dad was waiting for me in his working room, and

young, and she suffered a lot already. My parents treated her

was the

have never met worse than them. Their family name was Devilles. Actually, that was hilarious, as they obviously chose the name to scare

They kept s

but they also had a few boys. Usually they were orphans. They made them work for them for free, and they forced them to be prostitutes; they forced them 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

himself to play

her own blood. They said they cut her tongue out

I offered to pay for her. They were laughing when they gave her to