TOXIC: Blood Legacy Series by Kenya Goree-Bell

Author:Kenya Goree-Bell [Goree-Bell, Kenya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Goree Books
Published: 2024-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Fifteen

Taylor ~ The Plane

Act 2 -Scene II

(Setting) The asylum: Suro crushes the guard’s hand and thrusts him away from Mia. As the guards cower Suro gathers Mia in close. After a few moments he opens the window with the clear indication of escape.

Suro: It will be okay.

Mia: How do you know?

Suro: Because we have each other.

Never so inspired as I was by the performances in London, I work on my play for the first time in three years. I felt paralyzed and helpless during the pandemic. I thought going back to my family’s home and helping with the launch of their new creative arts center would help me start to write again. It didn’t take me long to realize how adrift I still felt. How much despair had caged me. I was walking in a cocoon of my former life. The one I managed to paste together after Hisashi. Still, I never felt the same after being torn from him. There was always something that felt missing. I knew even as I was being hailed as the next best thing since August Wilson that I was working on borrowed time. Soon it would all fall away once the quiet got to me and I had to deal with what I’d done. Leave the one person I loved most in the world in his deepest despair. No one walks away from that unscathed.

It’s well past midnight but I haven’t stopped writing since we boarded the plane. In fact, I asked Hisashi for a pen and notebook when we started on the way to the airport.

Hisashi seems more at ease now since the moment I re-entered his life. I’m not sure if it was the promise I made not to leave him or the Kinbaku scene afterward but he seems almost at peace.

Sighing, I get up from the makeshift writing desk I’ve made for myself. The interior of the plane is dimly lit. I gather the notebook and pencils he gave me. Why a pen would be detrimental to my captivity is lost on me. Hisashi forgets not everyone has the genius level deduction he embodies. I could have a hundred pens and still wouldn’t even begin to know how to override the system to alert anyone of my kidnapping.

He’s funny that way, assuming what comes natural to him is as effortless to others. I’m sure keeping company with his brother, cousin, and Ghadi Carrington has done nothing but further this thinking. Well, Mr. Techgenuis your wife’s blessing is limited to her craft as a playwright, so I won’t be MacGyvering my escape anytime soon.

Standing, I stretch my cramping back knocking out the kinks. “Ahh,” I exhale, loving the stretch of my muscles.

Gathering my meager items, pulling them close to my chest, I head to the bedroom of the private plane. The term is all that is typical of this and most private jets. It’s as large as Air Force One with the same type of security and high-tech amenities. The Takedas are known for their security measures, and none have been skimped on the plane assigned to Hisashi.

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