Four or Dead by G O A

Four or Dead

Chapter 55

Emma

I wake up with a groan as I try to come back to my body from the darkness of forced sleep. What happened? My head is pounding and my mouth is dry but I try to lick my lips anyway

"Emma?" A deep male voice sends my heart into a panicked gallop

making my eyes fly open

I glance around and sit up quickly, shuffling back against the headboard of the bed while at the same time trying to remember where I am

When my eyes rest on Zane sitting on the bed not far from me my

memories come rushing back

"What happened?" I ask, my voice sounding a little horse

"A little precaution of bringing you here is planting a small device to help keep track of you." Did he just say he implanted a tracking device in me? 4)

I let out a breath running my fingers through my hair while I let the fog in my head clear a little. My body feels sore, so I try to adjust myself to sit more comfortably and that's when I feel a shot of pain in my hip. I wince and throw my hand up to cover the area that is throbbing only to make it hurt more. [)

"Careful, you don't want to break open your stitches do you?” Zane says

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offering me a unreadable glance

"Zane, I don't understand? What is this?" I ask lifting my shirt to find a white bandage taped to my hip

"Well, my dear. I wanted to be sure that if anything happened to you or if someone had the very bad idea of taking you from me that I could find you anywhere." He says standing and fixing his suit. "Now I have to go. I have a meeting in half an hour." \°)

He turns and strides toward the door with a walk like he is the master of the whole world, which I guess in this town he is. \'

I throw back the covers and try to rush after him. He doesn't even seem to notice me stumbling behind him until he is standing in front of the suite door

He turns to me and offers me a smile. "There's a party tonight in honor of a recent deal I closed, and I want to take you as my date. It will be

good for my friends to meet my fiancé. Don't you think?"

My heart is racing and not in a good way. His fiancé? I mean I know that technically that is true, but it sounds wrong when he says it. There is no way I would ever marry this guy, and on the first day, I have to pretend in front of a room full of people that I was happy about this?

going to be one of the hardest things I would ever do to stand in a room full of people on

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wear. So get dolled up darling, it's going to be fun." He says winking at me and pulling

see two men standing beside the door and a few men stationed further down the hall as well. I needed to know what I was dealing with if

will be standing guard at all times to keep you safe Emma, and this door can only be opened by

hear the chiming sound of it locking. Realization hits me and I rush toward the door, pulling on the handle in a

in here!" I cry out as I slap my hand

locked inside a room was enough to send me into a spiral of fear and panic. A sob escapes me that sounds weak and broken, but as the memories of

it. Hot tears are falling from

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head in

healing when what I was really doing was pushing my past away and trying to bury it far

I pull myself up and scan the room for my backpack.

stumble around the unfamiliar room and search for it once again. I finally find it resting against one of the sofas. It looks intact, but I carry to the bedroom I had left and start to do a quick inventory of my stuff, and as far as I can see

has a thick back so that a small phone could be hidden inside. My finger pushed

my hand

guards would be able to hear me. Once the bathroom door is closed

through all this but there

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to contact

only one

A

A for my Angels

put the phone to my ear. Even the

how old this

Logan's attempt at not

say a

Oh man baby you had us worried. Are you

an fancy suite but fine."

keep my sadness hidden

been a couple of houses and I hate to admit I'm missing

on my own.

wiht a

there are two men guarding my room and at least six in

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leading to the elevator. This place is crazy big, and the floor I'm on has

go on when