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“With none of her belongings?” Dean says. “Bullshit!”

“I know,” I say.

“Why would he take her?” Mason asks.

“Why do you think? You saw the way he was looking at her in that parking lot,” I say.

“I bet you anything… If I have a buddy from the police department look up his car… I’d be willing to bet it’s that red car that kept driving by,” Todd says.

“You think?” Stacy asks him.

“I’ve dealt with his kind,” Todd says. “He thinks he is invincible because no one has ever been able to stop him before. He’s never received consequences for the things he’s done. Especially with Sadie. Her parents basically gave him a free fucking pass to hurt her.”

“Wait,” Mason says. “He called her Bunny, right?”

“Yeah,” I say. “So?”

“He was reminding her of that time they spent in the cabin,” he says. “What if he took her there?”

“They shut that place down a few weeks ago, didn’t they?” Jake asks.

“It can’t be that easy,” I say. “Why would he take her just to go to the one place he knows we would end up looking for her first when we connected it was him? Her Dad didn't even hesitate to tell me that.”

“Maybe he thinks we wouldn’t go because it’s too obvious?” Stacy says.

“Well… Let’s go find out,” I say.

“What if…” Mason starts to ask but stops himself. “She has to be okay.”

“She’s okay. She has to be okay,” Dean says, squeezing his shoulder.

Chapter thirteen

Sadie

I wake up ina fog, slowly peeling my eyes open. I gasp and sit up when I see I am lying naked on a bed. I feel an unmistakable wetness between my legs at the same time I see Paul and Leo sitting on a couch across the room talking quietly to each other while smiling in my direction. I fight the bile that rises in my throat when I realize that one or both of them raped me when I was passed out.

I know exactly where I am. This place is right out of my fucking nightmares. Every bad thing that’s ever happened to me has happened in this cabin. I am sitting on a dingy mattress fitted on an old wood-framed bed. When Paul and Leo stand, I scoot myself to the other side of the bed. It’s not until they are most of the way to me that I curse myself for not just getting up and running. I am so groggy from them knocking me out repeatedly. Every time I’d come to, he would do it again and again.

“Nice to see you awake, although it’s fun to play with you in your sleep,” Paul says as he walks around the bed to stand besideme. Leo is on my other side. I pull my knees to my chest and drop my head to rest on my knees.

“I see now why Lance, Mason, and Dean are fucking feral over you,” Leo says. I have nothing to say that won’t make the situation worse. Even if I wanted to say something, I don’t think I am capable of producing the words right now.

“Scared, Bunny?” Paul says as he lifts my chin to look at him. I am internally screaming at myself to do something. Anything. I want to shove his hand away and run out of this cabin, but I can’t make my body respond. Tears slip down my cheeks when he cups my cheek and tips my head back more. “Awe. You know how much I dislike your tears, Sadie. Do you remember my rules?”

“Yes,” I whisper. His rules were simple, but strict. No crying, saying no, or fighting, and respond to everything with “yes, sir.”

“Yes, what?” he says sternly.

“Go fuck yourself. I’m not calling you sir,” I say. He grips my chin in his hand until I cry out in pain before grabbing my ankle and yanking me down on the bed. He shoves me back and Leo pins my arms above my head with one hand right away. His other hand squeezes my breast before pinching and flicking my nipples to make them hard. He chuckles and I flinch when he brings his mouth to my nipple and circles it with his tongue before sucking. He switches breasts to resume his unnerving method of assault.

I feel frozen in place so I close my eyes and try to think of anything other than his mouth on me. I think about how for more than a decade, Leo has pretended to be my friend. Did he know what Paul did to me at eleven? Was he just an implant in my life and Paul could one day sneak his way in, or maybe it really was the leaked video that caught his attention? That day in the parking lot was the first time I had seen him since I wasa kid. Maybe he decided then to get his apparent cousin to help him assault me.

What did they do to me while I was knocked out this last time? I don’t remember how I got in the cabin, so they probably did it when we got in here. The slick feeling I have between my legs is most definitely come. It’s a feeling that once you feel it, you never forget what it’s like.

“You know… In all the time you and I spend together… I never got to taste your pretty little pussy,” Paul says as he pushes my legs apart. Sobs rack from my throat but I can’t make myself move. I’m fucking stuck. No matter how hard I try, I can’t convince my body to move. I open my eyes to see him grab a bottle off a table nearby.

“Let’s turn her,” Leo says. Paul grins before they both move me to lie across the bed so that my head dangles off the bed slightly.

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