Page 55 of Creed
I strained against the chains hard enough to shake the whole bed, but it accomplished nothing. “Yes, it can be a coincidence. Coincidences happen all the time.”
Realizing I wasn’t going to be breaking free any time soon, I stopped fighting, but I didn’t give up on the argument.
“Look, even if you were right, this isn’t going to work. I’m... I’m gay. Very, very gay. So, it doesn’t matter what woman you bring here, it really isn’t going to work.”
I’d hoped that Chester Grieve would at least hesitate over this wrench in his plan, but the man didn’t even blink.
“Don’t worry about that. We’ve already taken care of it. Eventually, we’ll have to find a way to collect your friends as well, but for now, we can start with you.”
The girl ran a tentative hand down my arm, and every nerve in my body lit up like someone had poured gasoline over me and lit a match. I felt like I was on fire and sweat started to bead on my forehead.
Even worse, I felt myself becoming aroused.
A horrifying realization settled over me. While I’d been unconscious, they must have drugged me with some sort of aphrodisiac. I really wasn’t going to have a choice in this.
They wanted a child from me, and they were going to get it one way or another.
CHAPTER 10
Kayden
The floorof the delivery truck rattled around us, as the two kids and I sat huddled in the middle of stacks of cardboard boxes. I was trying not to panic as, with every second that passed, we grew farther and farther from Creed.
He hadn’t even told me what his plan was. I could only assume that he had one, and trust that it would work. All he’d said was that I needed to stay on the truck and get off at the next delivery stop, so that’s exactly what I was going to do.
Creed had our only watch, so there was no way for us to tell the time. Based on the sunlight I could see coming through the crack under the door, I guessed that a couple hours had passed. I fed the children a granola bar from our bag, but I wasn’t hungry. My stomach rolled every time I thought about what might be happening to Creed, and I feared that if I tried to eat anything, I’d just throw it right back up.
Both Robyn and Mavis had nodded off leaning against my shoulder, and I was on the way to following them, when thefeeling of the truck slowing down brought me back to attention. Our journey had been a smooth trip so far, barely ever turning or changing speed, but something had definitely changed.
Had we arrived somewhere, or where we just changing direction?
The truck took several turns, and even came to a stop a few times, but it took several minutes before it came to a full stop and turned off.
We’d arrived at our destination, wherever that was. Whatever Creed’s plan had been, I hoped it was about to pan out, because I didn’t know what to do from here.
If I was smarter, I would have thought ahead, but I’d been so worried about Creed that I never considered what would happen when the truck came to a stop. Creed had said to try and stay out of sight, but the moment the delivery workers opened the door, they were clearly going to see us.
Looking around for a solution, the only thing at my disposal were the delivery packages. There weren’t enough to hide all of us, but if I stacked them in the corner, I might be able to hide the kids for a bit.
It was the best plan I had, so I went with it.
“Get behind here and stay quiet,” I told the kids as I started stacking boxes. “I’m not sure what’s going to happen, but if it looks like things are going bad, I’ll create a diversion and you need to run, all right?”
Robyn clung to his sister, holding the small girl in his arms. “Where should we run?”
That was a good question. One I didn’t have an answer to, but I couldn’t tell the kids that. They were already scared enough.
“Um, you should probably head to the nearest police station.”
Creed had said that the local authorities probably couldn’t be trusted, but at that moment I could think of no better option. Hopefully, we’d get lucky and the police station in this town wouldn’t be as corrupt as Creed feared.
“Okay,” Robyn nodded very seriously. “Where’s that?”
Right. Telling them to go to the police station was no help when I wasn’t even sure where we’d ended up. For all I knew, the truck had brought us to a large city, and the police station was miles away.
I could hear footsteps right outside the door. We only had a few more moments before we were discovered.
I wracked my brain for any advice I’d ever heard about what children should do if they were lost. Staying in one place and waiting for rescue was usually the answer, but that was mostly for if someone was lost out in the wilderness.
