Page 58 of Lost in Her
Chapter Twenty-One
Ethan
I open my eyes as the door opens and closes.I feel the chains tightly on my wrists keeping me lifted off the floor.I can feel the blood still rolling down my stomach from the open knife wound.The bruises from the beating I just got letting me know just how weak my body has become.Everything is pounding and hurts from my head to my fucking toes.
I look down and see my bare feet a few feet off the ground, my arms still lifted above my head, my shoulders screaming out in pain from trying to hold my weight.When I get my hands on this motherfucker I will make him scream.He thinks his man can give a good beating, well, he hasn’t seen what I can do yet.But he will.I swear by the end of this night I will not be the only one bleeding.
I look up as Tristan slowly makes his way into the room.His hands are behind his back as he looks me up and down checking out the handiwork his man did to me—beating the fuck out of me to see if I love Jenn.Fuck, man, he will have to do more than that if he wants me to break.
I would take a million beatings for Jenn if it proved to him that I love her.
“Are you willing to die for her, Ethan?”he asks me simply.He already knows the answer to the question.I have been proving it since I let his men take me into this place.
“Yes.”Now he’s still just playing games.Does this dude ever get sick of playing games?I am hanging from the ceiling bleeding out.I don’t have time for his fucking back and forth.
“Don’t need to think of the answer, huh?”
“No.”
“Good.At least we’re on the same page with that,” he states with amusement.“You know, she tried to give herself to me so I would let you go.”He’s finally getting it.He is finally seeing how deep our love for each other actually is.
“What?”I ask, processing his words.She wouldn’t.She fucking can’t.I won’t let her give up her life for me.Nope, not going to happen.I will make sure he kills me if it means she doesn’t make a deal with this prick.She’s already served one life sentence at the hands of her father.I won’t let her do it again.Not for me.
“She is willing to give up her life for yours.I want that love from her, what you have with her.What you don’t fucking deserve from her is what I want,” he says with irritation.
He will never get it.I will make sure of that.He doesn’t deserve her love.I don’t even deserve her love and I don’t deserve her giving up her life for mine.
Her love needs to be earned and cherished.And that is something I planned on doing, something I started to do until Oliver betrayed us, and now here we are.
“Where the fuck is she, prick?”
“Not here with you.Nope, not here with you.Actually, last time I saw her she was on her bed.She’s waiting for me to come and pleasure her which I intend on doing very soon.”I can hear the desire and longing in his voice, making my stomach turn.
I slowly lift my head and look up at the chains secured on the ceiling keeping me hanging and defenseless.Fucking shit.I pull on the chains.They’re secure as fuck.There’s no way I can pull these from the ceiling.Tristan made sure to think of everything.
I look back down at Tristan.He has an amused look on his face as he slowly starts to circle the room.
He is so used to people begging for their lives, crying and screaming for him to stop.He won’t get any of that from me.
“I found out something very interesting this morning,” Tristan states, continuing to circle the room at a painfully slow pace.He doesn’t have a care in the world.He isn’t worried.He is too comfortable.I can’t wait to fuck up all his plans.I want to look into his eyes and see the look when he realizes just how little control and power he actually has.It will be so much fun to burn this place to the fucking ground.
Showing everyone that anyone can be touched and brought down.He won’t be on his throne for very much longer.I don’t know how or when, but I will get out of this if it is the last thing I do.
“I’m not playing this game,” I snap.
I hear him laugh behind me.“It’s funny how you think you have a choice.You’re hanging from my ceiling in nothing but your slacks.Dude, you have no choice but to listen to what I have to say.”
I take a deep breath as Tristan walks around me stopping directly in front of me.
