Chapter 100
Chapter 100
Lucy’s POV
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I hovered at the mouth of the hallway, my breath catching in the unnaturally cold air. The buzz of the overhead lights was low, relentless–like a swarm humming just out of reach.
My heart drummed a warning rhythm in my chest, steady and loud. I glanced again–behind the doors. Empty classrooms. Toward the entrance. Past the storage closet.
Nothing. No one.
And yet… that feeling–like my skin was whispering a warning–wouldn’t leave me.
I tightened my grip on my phone, thumb trembling as it slid across the smooth glass. My eyes darted over the screen, scanning frantically for his name.
Kaiden.
There.
My thumb hovered above it–just a breath away.
And then I tapped.
But before I could hit the call button, a hand clamped over my mouth.
My eyes widened in shock.
A thick white cloth pressed hard against my nose and lips–soft at first, then suffocating.
I let
go
of my phone to fight back with all my force and as the phone hit the ground, a sharp clack came along.
My fingers clawed at the wrist across my mouth, nails digging in, but I was weakening fast. A second arm snaked tightly around my torso, pinning my arms to my sides like iron bands. I tried to jerk away, but the grip was too strong, too calculated.
My scream came out strangled, eaten up by the fabric.
Then it hit me.
That smell.
Sweet. Sickly. Chemical. It curled into my nostrils like poisoned sugar.
My mind screamed the word before my lips could.
Chloroform.
Shit.
I kicked out, panic erupting in every cell of my body. My heel collided with something–a shin, maybe? A grunt o followed, but the arms didn’t loosen. They only tightened, like a boa constrictor reacting to a heartbeat.
My limbs felt like they’d turned to molasses.
My attacker’s breath was steady against my ear, measured and silent, as if they’d done this before.
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No words. No face.
Just the cold, creeping pull of unconsciousness.
I fought it with everything I had, forcing my eyes to stay open, focusing on anything–anything–to stay awake. But my body betrayed me. My thoughts slowed. The hallway dimmed.
Then-
The lights above me blurred, turning into soft rings of white and yellow. My vision was doubling, and everything looked hazy. My legs gave out beneath me, and just before the world collapsed into black-
One name, full of worries, burst through the fog in my head.
Kaiden…
Then everything went dark as I collapsed in my attacker’s arms.
Kaiden’s POV
The glow from the vintage desk lamp cast a faint golden pool over the sales records scattered across the mahogany surface. Numbers blurred before my eyes, the neat columns of profits and losses refusing to make sense as my mind was replaying my perfect moments with Lucy on loop.
I leaned back in the leather chair, running a hand through my hair in frustration.
What the hell was I doing here?
I should’ve been with Lucy.
I tapped my pen against the ledger, trying not to think about how quiet my whole world had felt after I left her in that hockey field, trying not to picture how her eyes sparkle when she does her favorite things.
I missed her. I missed her a lot and now, I couldn’t take it anymore.
“Fuck it,” I muttered under my breath, reaching for my phone beside the stack of ledgers. But just as my fingers brushed the screen, the door to the study burst open with a deafening bang that rattled the frames on the wall. The sudden sound cracked through the stillness like thunder, making my heart jolt in my chest.
My eyes
Selena.
shot
- up.
Lucy’s mom stormed into the room like a hurricane wrapped in perfume and panic. Her heels clacked wildly against the floor, hair disheveled, face pale like she’d seen a ghost. Her eyes locked onto mine with a kind of desperation I’d never seen in her–not even during her most dramatic performances.
“What the hell are you doing in here?” she snapped, voice trembling. “Why are you working alone?”
I blinked, caught off guard. “I–what?”
“You should be with her!” she screamed, voice rising into something shrill, broken. “With Lucy!”
Her words hit me like a slap. Selena. Telling me to be with Lucy?
I stared at her, stunned. “Are you… are you being serious right now?”
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For a moment, I wondered if I’d fallen asleep and this was some weird dream, Selena had made it very clear how she felt about Lucy and me getting close. This wasn’t just unlike her–it was unthinkable.
But then-
She dropped.
Right there. Fell to her knees like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
And cried.
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“You should be with her,” she choked, her mascara already smudging beneath her eyes. “Why did you leave her alone?” The world tilted.
A weight settled in my gut, cold and solid.
My blood turned to ice.
Lucy.
Something was wrong.
Very wrong.
I shot out of my chair and crouched in front of her, gripping her shoulders gently, trying to meet her eyes, trying to stay calm when everything inside me began to churn.
“Selena,” I said carefully, slowly, watching her unravel in front of me. “What happened?”
She didn’t answer right away.
For a second, she just stared at me, eyes filled with worries and guilt but then, something snapped in her eyes and now it was wild with something I couldn’t read–something sharp and brittle, like glass about to shatter. “You!” Her voice shook with rage as she pointed a trembling finger at me. “You said you loved her. Wh…” Her voice cracked in the middle. “Why did you leave her alone?” Her shoulders squared, her jaw clenched, and suddenly she was no longer the mother begging me to stay with her daughter.
She was fire.
She grabbed my collar, fists curling into the fabric of my shirt like claws. Her breath hit my face, shaky and hot. “You don’t leave someone you love. You don’t love her. You men… you’re all the same. Every damn one of you.”
“Selena-” I started, but she didn’t let me finish.
“You men are fucking selfish,” she screamed, shaking me slightly. “You take and take and leave when it matters. That’s all you ever do,”
Her eyes glistened with rage–or maybe it was grief, masked so well it became hate.
“That’s why I hate you all.” She hissed, shooting to her feet so suddenly that I instinctively rose too. “You shouldn’t as anything more than an ATM machine.”
Her words clung to my skin like thorns, sharp and bloody. Is that what she thinks of my dad too? An ATM machine?
eated
I pried her hands off my collar, gently but firmly. I wanted to confront her for the things she said, but I didn’t. Lucy. She was my first and prime priority.
“Don’t make this about you,” I said, my voice low, trembling with restrained fury. “Lucy. Why should I be with her? Is it
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something I need to be worried about? Tell me what happened?”
The way her face twisted as she heard my questions–like she’d swallowed the truth and it burned going down–told me everything I needed to know. Her lips parted like she wanted to say something, but guilt clamped them shot. That flicker in her eyes–panic, regret, something raw–made my blood run cold.
There was something wrong with Lucy and Selena was responsible for it.
Her expression says it all.
I didn’t waste any second on her, I just walked past her and stormed out, heart pounding in my ears, rage and fear crashing in my chest like a storm.
God, Lucy. Please be okay.
To be continued…
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something I need to be worried about? Tell me what happened?”
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The way her face twisted as she heard my questions–like she’d swallowed the truth and it burned going down–told me everything I needed to know. Her lips parted like she wanted to say something, but guilt clamped them shut. That flicker in her eyes–panic, regret, something raw–made my blood run cold.
There was something wrong with Lucy and Selena was responsible for it.
Her expression says it all.
I didn’t waste any second on her, I just walked past her and stormed out, heart pounding in my ears, rage and fear crashing in my chest like a storm.
God, Lucy. Please be okay.
To be continued…
