Chapter 12

A Chapter by soliloquy

The two finally reach the cabin.

I grab Alex as she is still running the dark and tackle her to the cool,wet grass beside the driveway. Alex groans as we make contact and fall together. She actually falls on me and probably isn’t happy to get dirty and wet.

I am angry. I'm not going to allow some spoiled little college brat make a fool of me. I only took her for the ransom money and nothing else. Alex holds the key to my immediate future and since everything else has turned to s**t lately this plan needs to work.

I intend on taking the money I will get for Alex and leaving the state in order to start over with a whole new identity. I know of someone who can get me that. An acquaintance I met a while back told me he could start someone over in a different state with a different name for a price.

“Get off of me you prick!” Alex yells at me. But I keep holding on to her and start to carry her without a word. I am taking her to the cabin and want to calm her so we can get situated and begin the next phase of my plan. I am carrying Alex like she is a bratty,incorrigible four year-old on her way to bed early.

“What the f**k is the matter with you?! Are you crazy? You can’t do this!”

Upon opening the door of the cabin with Alex still in my grasp,I am nearly out of breath and sweating. “You aren’t very heavy little lady. But you sure see to have some fight in you!"

“F**k you!” I yell at him,with a force that probably causes ringing in his ears.

Thank God we are out in the middle of no where!

“How could you even stop me from taking off again? You don’t even have a gun.”

But my face goes pale when Frank answers with,“You don’t know what I have. Some things are worse than guns.”

After putting Alex down inside the cabin I manage to shut and lock the only door in the entire structure. I then warn Alex about the need to calm down or bad things will happen to her.

I say calmly with conviction,“Knock it off or I might get rid of you and you won’t ever be found. I am NOT going to go chasing after you in the dark again. You stand no chance out here. We are over 30 miles from anything,the temps tonight will fall to the low 40’s,and it’s expected to rain all night. You dont even have a coat! There are also wolves and bear in these woods. I know that since I have hunted here for years. So you need to relax and nothing bad will happen to you. Do you understand?”

I can’t respond. I am trying too hard to look strong,and don’t want to break down with the tears that want so badly to flow from my eyes. I want to look tough as always,but I am for the first time fearful. My breathing is still hard and I only want to go home. I am scared now.

Could this loser really be capable of hurting me, or even killing me?

Frank finishes by instructing me to sit down and wait for some food. I must admit to myself that food sounds kind of nice since I haven’t eaten anything all day and I am hungry and weak.

I think it’s creepy that Frank apparently isn’t going to bother to tie my hands or my feet before eating dinner. He can’t actually trust me! So he doesn’t even fear me taking off again? Maybe I am stuck here with him after all! Oh my God.

Maybe he’s right. Maybe I stand no chance out here.

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