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Authors: R. J. Sable
Stronger with You (With You Trilogy) (55 page)
But what about me?
The doors were closed and the van was moving. I kicked out wildly with all my strength but there were two of them and they were moving quickly and efficiently. Before I knew what was happening my ankles and wrists were bound with cable ties. I screamed out again but I knew it was in vain.
One of the men backhanded me and I fell quiet as he wrapped something around my head, between my teeth, gagging me. He pulled a rough hood of fabric over my head and everything was gone.
I couldn’t see anything. I couldn’t move. I lay on the cold hard floor of the van and tried to keep calm.
Just keep calm
. I was kidding myself. There was no calm in a situation like this.
What do they want with me? Are they going to kill me? Why me?
Rape. Murder. Torture. A million possibilities flashed through my mind, none of them pretty.
I squealed against my gag as I felt a hand on me. It rolled me over so that I was lying uncomfortably on my bound hands. The tears running down my face were soaking the fabric, which scratched my sodden cheeks. I tried to plead with the men.
Please don’t hurt me. Please let me go
. But the words came out without coherent form with the foul tasting fabric between my teeth.
The hand went into my pocket and pulled out my mobile and then it was gone. A large, heavy foot rolled me over and I was on my stomach once more. I felt a sick sense of relief that they weren’t touching me anymore but that didn’t stop my body from trembling with fear.
I heard the men speaking but I couldn’t hear them through the sound of my own sobs. I tried to bite them back so that I could listen. I could hear the tell tale sounds of my mobile being taken apart and what I assumed was the battery being removed. My heart sank because I knew what that meant and why they were doing it. They didn’t want me to be found. More than that though, it meant they were organised. It meant they knew what they were doing. It meant that they’d taken me for a reason.
I swallowed back a new wave of terrified sobbing and tried to think.
There must be a way out of this. There must be something I can do.
“We’ve got her,” a heavily accented voice said.
The voice came out of nowhere. I wasn’t prepared for it. I could tell it was a man’s voice but nothing else. The accent,
what was that accent?
Arabic maybe? Or it could have been Russian? Hell, it could have been Welsh by this point. I was too panicked to concentrate. I heard the sound of a phone call ending and then silence again, just the sound of the engine as we picked up speed.
I tried to keep track of the number of turns we made but it was no use. We’d turned left twice and then what felt like a roundabout, but I couldn’t tell how far round it we’d gone. We were going fast now. Really fast. We must have been on the motorway.
The motorway meant we were getting further and further away from Derby. Further away from Jason and my brothers. Further away from safety. I wondered if they knew yet. We’d been driving for at least fifteen minutes, or at least I guessed so. It felt like it.
Alex must have called the police by now. What would he have done then? Would he have called Ian or Jason? What were they thinking? They must be so worried. I was worried. I was terrified.
What if I never see any of them again?
To be continued.
I know, I know. A cliffhanger. I’m sorry. I really am. I had to make a tough call on this one. I personally either love or hate cliffhangers and I’m sure a few of you feel the same.
I can promise that it won’t be a long wait for book 3 ‘Always with You’ which is the last book in the series.
For those of you that
really
hate cliffhangers, you can find chapter 1 of ‘Always with You’ on my blog:
http://rjsable.wordpress.com/awy/
The password is ‘nelly’
I want to take the time to thank you for reading ‘Stronger with You’. I truly love writing Jamie-Lea and Jason’s story and hope you have enjoyed reading it.
Thank you to all the people who have supported me and encouraged me to continue on this journey, especially the bloggers and reviewers. Your words mean the world to me.
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