The Secrets That We Keep by Isabel Lucero

Author:Isabel Lucero
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Isabel Lucero
Published: 2013-08-08T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

He grabs me by my arm and drags me out from underneath the bed.

“I don’t have time for these games, Annabella and it would be better if you would just cooperate with me,” he says while pulling me up to my feet forcefully.

“Cooperate with you? Are you fucking kidding me?” I scream at him. I try yanking my arm out of his hold but he’s too strong. “Get the fuck off of me, Lucas! I will not cooperate with you trying to kill me!”

He stops short and pulls me in front of him and gazes down at me with fury in his eyes. “Don’t fuck with me right now, Annabella, I’m really not in the mood for your shit. You’ve caused enough trouble as it is.”

He starts walking back down the hallway towards the living room. My eyes glace around the room nervously, looking for the man who was in the room with me earlier, threatening my life.

“Where’s your friend?” I ask with malice in my tone.

He looks at me briefly before responding. “It doesn’t matter. Now sit the fuck down.”

He pushes me forward toward the couch and I fall down onto it and then situate myself to sit and face him. If looks could kill, he’d be lying at my feet and I would gladly stomp on his lifeless body on my way out of this Godforsaken place.

“Annabella, this conversation we’re about to have is a long time coming, and I hope that you will be honest with me.”

I scoff at him in absolute disbelief. “Honest? You want me to be honest with you? That’s rich,” I say with a humorless laugh and cross my arms across my chest and look away from him.

“Fuck, Annabella! I’m not fucking around. You need to be honest with me!” he roars.

I snap my head in his direction and throw daggers at him with my eyes. “I take it you’ll be honest too, then? Honest about how you’ve been out to fucking kill me all these fucking years! Honest about never giving a shit about me and honest about being a worthless piece of shit,” I snarl at him.

Lucas takes a deep breath in and then comes and sits on the coffee table right in front of the couch that I’m sitting on and leans forward.

“I’ll admit to all of those things,” he says in a quiet and calm voice. “If you admit to everything you’re guilty of.”

He continues to stare at me with such intensity and I can no longer keep the eye contact. I lean back into the couch and turn my head to the side.

“Not so easy, is it?” he asks.

“Just do what you have to do, Lucas,” I say without turning my head to look at him.

“Do what I have to do? You mean, kill you?”

I turn to meet his gaze. “Yeah, that’s what all of this is about isn’t it? It was you following me like I thought. You were following me hoping to get me alone so you could kill me.

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