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  “I know but there is more.”

  “What?”

  “I love you. So much more than I did when I was with you and I think that’s because I learned to love myself and now I want to love you completely. I want to be with you, I’m tired of being apart and I never want to apart again.”

  He doesn’t say anything for a moment and my heart stops as I wait for his response. Finally, he says, “I want you to come home to me, now. I know you want to never be apart again, baby, but I really think we should wait until the divorce is final. Can you get away for a bit? Maybe just a weekend, until we figure out what we can do? Or maybe I’ll come there. I can’t describe the feelings that are coursing through me right now, but God, I want to see you, hold you. It’s been eight months too long and I’ve been waiting for the moment, but I want Rob completely gone first. What do you think? Do you want me to come there? I can leave Friday afternoon and stay till Monday, I don’t know. I’ll think of something, I just want to hold you.”

  I want that too, and I know he is waiting for me to answer him but I am frozen in fear. My eyes are wide, my heart is pounding and I can’t seem to catch my breath because a hand has come over my mouth. Finally my fear subsides and fight mode kicks in and I scream but then I watch as another hand takes my phone and slams it against the floor. I scream out again, slamming my elbows into the person’s ribs, but it’s as if it doesn’t affect them at all. As I struggle against him and slowly I began to freak out because I know the smell of the person that is holding me. I just can’t bring myself to identify him because that means he has found me and I am more than likely about to be killed.

  “Thought you could get away, huh?”

  Panic fills me and I know there is no point in me denying who it is, because Rob Moore is going to kill me, either way.

  So why deny anything?

  Slowly I blink my eyes, trying to focus. Lifting my head, I go to push my hair out of my face, but I can’t move my hands. I am tied to the chair I am in. My body is covered with sweat and I feel like I can’t breathe. Frantically, I look around the room and I think I’m at his house, but it’s empty of our furniture. The only reason I know this is his house is the counter still has all my cookbooks on them. I pull at my ties again but I can’t get my hands out and my heart is pounding so hard it hurts.

  What the hell am I going to do?

  Tears gather in my eyes and quickly roll down my cheeks and into my mouth. I am going through the options of getting out of this room while still pulling at the ties. I don’t understand how I got here? What did he give me, what did he do to me? I hurt everywhere and I don’t know why. I think that’s the scariest part. I have to get out of here. I have to get away. I can’t let this happen. Oh my God, I am so fucking scared.

  When I hear a whimper, I turn my neck as far as I can to see that I’m not alone in this room. A woman, maybe my age is in the corner with her dark hair covering her face. She is wearing a business suit but it is mostly covered with blood and when she looks up at me, I can see why. Her face is mangled. Oh god. Pulling at the ties harder, I get one of my hands free and I cry out in joy as I untie the other one. Quickly, I undo my legs and then I rush to the girl to help.

  “It’s okay, we’re going to get out of here.”

  She is crying and can only nod as I work on the ties that are holding her arms and legs together in a hog tie. When I get one of her hands free, her arms falls to the side and I can see her nametag. She works for the law firm that Tucker has hired for me and instantly, I feel horrible. It’s my fault she is here but why the hell would they send some girl to deliver papers to an abuser? They basically signed her death certificate!

  I can’t believe Rob did this. I don’t know what has made him do this but this is crazy. He didn’t love me. He didn’t want me, I wasn’t worth all this! Why hurt so many people? Why continue to hurt me? Why can’t he just let go? I don’t understand any of this and as this girl watches me untie her legs I feel horrible. I bet her mother is freaking out. She is probably calling everyone looking for her baby. How could this happen?

  I shake my head as I quickly untie her legs. My hands are shaking so hard but I still manage to do it. I reach out, trying to get her but she is hardly responsive. She looks horrible but I have to get her out of here. We have to go. Have too. Reaching for her arm, she cries out and I cringe. I reach for her again but before I can move her anymore, an explosion goes off and blood splatters against my face.

  I freeze.

  Slowly I blink as I look down at where the girl I was just trying to help has half of her face missing. I can see the remnants of her brain, her empty eye sockets, pieces of her teeth. It’s too much to take. I close my eyes as the nausea hits me and then I fall, my face hitting the ground hard before I succumb to the darkness.

  My head is pounding right along with my heart. Everything is blurry as I open my eyes to find Rob watching me. He is covered in blood, his eyes dark and his mouth is set in a hard line. My breathing picks up and instantly I start to pull at the restraints he has me in but I know there is no use in struggling. He has me and there isn’t a damn thing I can do about it. Taking in a strangled breath, a tear rolls down my face as I stay locked in his hate filled gaze. He lets out a long breath before running the tip of gun along his temple, still watching me.

  How did I get so involved with such a monster? I knew he was evil but I never expected him to be able to kill someone with no cares in the world. He is looking at me as if it’s just another day, not as if he had just blew the head off some innocent girl. I know I’m next and I am freaking out. I can’t get away. I’m going to die and there is nothing I can do about it. Nothing.

  He drops the gun from his temple and lays it in his lap before slowly clapping. The sound startles me and I jump, feeling as if my heart just stopped. With heavy lidded dark eyes, he stares at me before slowly shaking his head.

  “I applaud you for getting away and staying away for as long as you did.”

  I don’t say anything but my traitorous lip starts to wobble and I try to hold in my sob but I’m not sure I can. I am scared, so fucking scared and I don’t know what to say or do. When he stands, I start to struggle more as he moves towards me. I watch as he tucks the gun in the waist of his jeans before leaning into me, bracing his hands on the top of the chair, looking deep into my eyes.

  “But there is no use. You are mine, Violet. You aren’t going anywhere unless I say you can.”

  “How did you find me?”

  He smiles. “They sent that dumb bitch over and your address was on the paperwork. I had completely forgotten your grandfather’s house.”

  He looks at me, his head cock to the side as a sinister smile comes over his face. “Are you mad? Are you scared? Have anything to say?”

  “Fuck you,” I sneer.

  He laughs before shaking his head. “You’d like that, huh? Or what? Are you fucking that doctor? The same doctor that has been making my life a fucking hell hole? The one that got me fired from my job, the one that thinks I don’t know he is doing this all. The one keeping you away from me.”

  He looks at me for a moment as what he says registers in my head. Tucker got him fired? No wonder he looks like shit.

  When I don’t say anything, he screams, “he can’t fucking have you!”

  I know I should say anything but I can’t have him going after Tucker next. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

  “Oh really? I heard you talking to him. You love him, you want him, you two have waited so long to be together and now is the time. Fuck him, he’ll get what is coming to him.”

  Panic fills me as my eyes go wide. “Rob, please, you have this all wrong. I left because you kept hurting me. I told you that. I don’t want to be with you anymore. It has nothing to do with Tucker or anyone else for that matter.”

  “Oh, do you mean your mom?” he asks with his mouth curved up. His hands are shaking, his eyes look crazed and I swear he looks so much different