Lucky in Love by Brockmeyer Kristen

Author:Brockmeyer, Kristen [Brockmeyer, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-29T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

The hallway was a surprise. Based on my room, I'd have figured I was tucked away in a creepy gothic mansion somewhere, but overhead, plain old fluorescent office lights buzzed. The hallway stretched down a good distance, carpeted in plain beige, with four heavy oak doors on either side. Going to the door immediately next to me, I fumbled with three keys before one finally clicked and the door swung inward.

The room was dark. "Chance?" I whispered. "Julian? Is anyone in there?" I had the sudden thought that maybe the other guard was inside and scooted backward just as a weak light clicked on to illuminate a bare room with a linoleum floor, a small table with a lamp on it and a bed. Nothing else.

A girl that looked to be about sixteen was sitting up, eyes dilated with fear. I was baffled.

"Who are you?" I whispered.

The girl clutched her thin blanket tighter and I saw that she was naked, her arms blotched with deep bruises that looked black in the dim glow of the lamp. "Please don't hurt me," she whimpered. "I just want to go home."

My heart wrenched and I slipped cautiously into the room. She cringed away from me as I moved slowly toward the bed until I was close enough to see needle marks in her arms and her eyes so dilated from terror that I couldn't tell what color they were. She was fine-boned and china doll pretty, with a tangle of golden hair that flowed down her back.

"I'm not going to hurt you," I said softly. "I'm trying to find my friends and get the hell out of here. My name is Lucky. Can you get up? Are you hurt?"

She just stared at me with fear-deadened eyes.

"He sent you to do this, didn't he? To make me think I could get away? But he's going to punish me if I really try to leave."

"He, who? One of the guards? Dominick?"

The girl paled when I said Dominick's name and shook her head frantically, pressing back against the headboard of the twin-sized bed.

"No," I said forcefully. "I'm not with him." I tried to think how to explain the situation to her quickly, but that instinct was warning me to move again. I summarized as quickly as I could. "Dominick kidnapped a friend of mine and I was trying to rescue him with another friend and some FBI agents when we were caught. I'm hoping to God that everyone else is still alive and here someplace, because I just beat the hell out of one of the guards and I'm sure the other one is out there somewhere and I'd really like to turn this over to the professionals to handle so we have to go now." I reached for her hand, pleadingly.

"But the way you're dressed… old-fashioned, like him," she said uncertainly.

"I dress this way because I'm cool. He's just crazy," I retorted impatiently, my heart drumming in my chest with the need to hurry. "Please, you need to either come with me or I'm going to have to leave you.

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