The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 72

Chapter 72

Ella & Alexander

Ella

The world kept slipping in and out of focus.

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One moment I was sitting at the restaurant table, the next I was being carried out the back door, seeing Lilith’s bloodied head on the ground behind me, and then I found myself staring at the back of a car seat, my cheek pressed against cracked leather.

My head felt like it was filled with cotton. When I tried to lift it, everything spun.

“There we go, sweetheart. Just relax.”

The man’s voice came from somewhere above me, but it sounded distorted, like he was speaking underwater. Or maybe I was the one who was underwater, drowning, sinking. I tried to turn toward the

sound, but my neck wouldn’t cooperate.

“What…” My own voice sounded strange and slurred. “What did you…”

“Shh. Don’t fight it. Makes everything easier.”

I blinked hard, trying to clear my vision. The man was driving with one hand on the steering wheel, the

other reaching back to… to touch my leg.

I tried to pull away but my body wouldn’t listen. My arms felt like they weighed a thousand pounds.

“Get away from me…”

The man laughed. It was an ugly sound. “You’re not in any position to make demands, Luna.”

Luna. He knew who I was.

Terror shot through me, cutting through some of the drug–induced haze. This wasn’t random. This wasn’t just some creep who’d seen a pretty girl in a bar. He’d targeted me specifically.

I tried to sit up and get a better look at where we were going, but something was wrong with my wrists. When I looked down, I saw silver duct tape wrapped around them, binding them together.

“No, no, no…” I struggled against the restraints, but they held firm.

“Save your energy,” the man said. “You’re going to need it.”

The car hit a pothole, jarring me against the door. Through the window, I could see we were no longer in town. Trees flashed by in the darkness.

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The man held up something small and rectangular. A camera

“Smile for me, sweetheart.”

The flash went off, temporarily blinding me./squeezed my eyes shut, but he kept taking pictures, the flashes hurting my drugged retinas even through my eyelids.

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Finally, the car began to slow, turning onto what felt like a dirt road. Branches scraped against the windows as we drove deeper into the forest. And then we stopped.

The man got out and came around to my side

of the car. When he opened the door, I tried to scramble away,

but my legs wouldn’t support me. He caught me easil

gag.

the acrid scent of his unwashed flesh made

you hurting yourself

me toward an old barn,

wood looked rotten, and half the roof had caved

you think?” He pushed open a door. “Nice and

and animal waste. My feet dragged across the dirt floor as he hauled me toward the back of the building, where a few

a pile of moldy hay, and I couldn’t catch myself with my hands bound. My shoulder hit the ground

man said, pulling out the camera again,

me good shots.”

flash went off again and again. I tried to turn away, but he grabbed my

him.

as some of the drugs began to wear off. “Please don’t

Someone’s paying me very well to make sure you have

Someone was paying him?

information, he reached for

when the

in my shoulder, and scrambled to my feet. The barn door was still open, a rectangle of slightly less darkness against the

I ran.

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in and out of focus. I stumbled over

me, I could hear

bitch! Get back

the forest. Branches tore at my

before I tripped over a fallen log and

tongue.

“There you are.”

on me before I could get back up, his weight pinning me to the forest floor. I could smell his breath, sour

he panted. “Now I’m

was it. This was how I was going

the dirt with

and screamed

“Alexander!”

Alexander

helped Lilith into his car. Blood was still trickling from the gash on her temple, and she looked ready to collapse. “Make sure they check for

you?” Liam

“I’m going after Ella.”

should

time.” I slammed

me alone outside the restaurant.

called Gabriel.

the word,” I said without preamble. “Sophia’s red convertible

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“What’s going on?”

kidnapped. Find that fucking

I hung up and got in my own car, my hands shaking as I started the engine. Someone had

of Sophia’s

rang as I pulled

saw a red convertible speed through about twenty minutes ago. Said it was

was

toward the forest

I floored the accelerator.

driving through rural back roads with no streetlights and nothing but

to track the convertible this far through a combination of Gabriel’s contacts and sheer luck a farmer had seen it turn onto Old Mill Road, and a jogger had spotted it

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