Run (Two Wheeled Psychos) by Linda Eggert

Author:Linda Eggert [Eggert, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Work passes so slowly knowing that my Lily is waiting for me in the cellar playroom. She was such a good girl when I released her from her shackles, and even thanked me as I brought a bed down to her between my online meetings. The frown when I chained her to the bedpost wasn’t nice, but I understand her reluctance to be bound all the time. I just need to trust her a little bit more before she has free roam of her room, even though she’d never make it past the security door that opens from her space to the garage.

Lunch time can’t come soon enough, and I’m excited to take a break from tampering with my legal documents to make her food that I know she’ll enjoy. Kendra and Jack in the office can wait an extra couple hours for the paperwork they requested.

No more spitting your meals in my face, princess.

I find myself humming one of my mother’s songs as I sear the sides of the sirloin steaks and mash the fresh potatoes with milk and sour cream. The smell of asparagus roasting in the oven adds to the scents of the meat and cream, turning my kitchen into an olfactory sensation in itself.

Magnolia is down in the cellar with her, and I miss the pitter patter of little feet on the floor as I plate two meals and scrape the scraps into a stainless-steel bowl for her.

“Lunch with my two girls.” I say to myself, grabbing everything I need and placing it on a wooden tray, including a small clear bud vase with a single red rose. “Совершенный. Perfect”

The stairs creek under my feet, and my boots clunk loudly on the wooden planks as I descend into the cellar with a lunch fit for a queen. The sound of my arrival is drowned out by the scraping of metal on concrete as Lily paces back and forth at the bottom of her new bed. She looks stressed, wringing her hands together, covered in nothing but a pair of my boxers and one of my gym t-shirts.

“What’s wrong?” I ask, setting the tray down on the workbench and adjusting the little flower so it sits just right.

“What’s wrong? I’m locked in a basement, God knows where, chained to a bed.”

“I know princess. Things will get easier soon, remember what I said.” I say to her, pulling her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and resting my chin on the top of her head when she leans into me.

“I know, I know. It all depends on me.” She sighs, pulling away and looking up at me with those stormy eyes. “I’m being good.”

“Yes you are. I’m so proud of you.” I say, leaving her to fetch her meal, setting it down on the foot of her bed after smoothing out the covers so the tray doesn’t tip and spill. “Lunch?”

I know it’s absolutely insane of me to think she can just live a normal life down here.

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