UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
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CHAPTER 35: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
The pain on her scalp was unbearable. Anna wanted to curse Jake, but she was keeping her mouth shut. She bit her lips, while the tears were all streaming down her cheeks. Her eyes stings. How much longer should she cry? She was bawling her eyes out, but she was misheard. The misdeeds she was suffering from she couldn’t beat, and her cries for help seems to be futile.
The woman on the other hand appeared deaf, she never even batted an eyelash to where Anna was. She seems cruel. Cold and stoic, same with his expression as far as she recalled at the back of her head.
She haven’t had any idea where Jake had lead them to.
“Here we are.” Jake opened the door.
She was the one who walked ahead of them. It was if she knew what business she have on this place to which Yna still question.
Afterwards, Jake directed his attention to her after the latter left.
“And you little b***h would be coming to me as well.” He grin darkly.
And her guts told her that it doesn’t mean something good.
Fear gripped her chest.
“W—what?” She trembled. “W—where are you going to take me?” She was afraid.
How can she not be afraid? To think about things that they could have done to her made her terrified. Somehow, it was filling her head. It was making her thoughts clamoured in such dangerous precipice that deems to ate her alive. It was continuously devouring her. And she is not liking it in any bit.
She wanted to run away from this place, but as the salty smell, and taste relished, the sea wrapping across her, she knew that it wouldn’t be that easy.
Hopeless as there wouldn’t be any escape, her reverie had been soon cut off. Another tug on her hair made the burning sensation on her head much worst. It doubled the pain.
“S—stop.” She haven’t had no idea how long had she cry, nor how much she must endure what they are doing to her.
“Shut up!” Jake angrily said.
It was above whisper, as if he was already annoyed at how Yna continue to wail ahead and wept.
“P—please let me go, I promise—” Anna trailed off. “I—I won’t tell anybody about it.” She added and offered, hoping that it could at least woe Jake, although she is aware of that he isn’t.
Whose abductors going to believe her anyway? Keep it as a secret and not tell it to anybody? That would be ironic. Nobody pretended that it never happened on the first place. Nobody could keep it away, nobody could buried it deeper at the back of their head, especially her. It would mark her as she live, same with the pain and misery, the distraught caused by her father the moment that they left her for another woman.
She couldn’t help, but question herself. Does she deserve this pain? And why doea she must deal with it, when nobody had given her the exact answer of continuous why’s?
She smiled bitterly.
Had she been bad? Was it because she was never an obedient daughter to her mother? Is it punishment? If it was, then if there would be a chance where she could beg, she would wanted to beg not for herself to be spared, but for her child to be save from whatever domination they had place onto.
“You really think I would believe you, little b***h?” Jake only laugh at what she offered. “You cannot make a fool out of me, I wasn’t stupid just like the rest.”
“Then I’ll pay you.” She was hopeful.
She was trying to keep flames inside her chest setting ablaze as she uttered those words.
Never to give up, never to lose or she’ll die. She’ll perish in no time if she let alone all the fears to succumbed her thoughts.
“How much can you pay?”
It seems to have gotten Jake’s attention, his interest at peak as he looks back and forth to check if somebody could hear them or not. She doubted that somebody was near as of the moment. The stampede earlier suggested that they are still looking for her, and the only person who knew where she is (Jake and Amanda, and probably her uncle) doesn’t yet announced that she had been caught already.
Hope began to blooms inside her chest.
“I—I’ll double it—!
“A million.” Jake cut her off.
Her eyes widened across.
“If you wanted to get free from here, you needed at least to pay me a million—”
“That’s too much!” She was stunned.
Jake look at her decisively.
“Well, that’s up to you then. If you pay me, I’ll help you escape—”
“But how can you guarantee that I’ll be out here alive?” That was something that worries her.
“Well, it depends on how cooperative you would be.” Jake shrugged his shoulder.
Unlike before, he seems to me much calmer far from that irritated make, and his hold deems to loosened a bit. She breathed a sigh of relief.
“How can I pay you?” Although that money she had save from her working hours and overtime at her job is the only thing she had left for herself. Even so, she couldn’t just let herself be put at risk here, much worst get killed without even giving birth to her child at all.
If she needed to pay him that money, she will.
“I’ll give you a phone, where you can transfer it to my account, but—” Jake squinted his eyes at her. “—no funny business or I’ll be the one who’ll kill you, and don’t you dare lie to me. I f*****g hate liars, are we clear?”
“Y—yes.” She gulps.
“Now we have deal, but for now pretended as if you still didn’t know me.” Jake gave her a serious look to which she understand quickly.
Going for the show, she pretended hurt, but her cries isn’t for a display anymore. The hope she had on her chest spreads like a wildfire.
“T—thank you.” Shakily, she whispered.
Her lips was quivering.
Although unsure whether Jake was telling the truth or not, she doesn’t care, but she was looking for a brighter side, where she could run freely. On her head awaits a scenario where she was on Gustav's arms again. He was holding her close, while she was smiling nonstop. He was there caressing her belly after she told him the truth of her disappearance.
She couldn’t help, but imagined those scenes. Oh, how good it can be.
But first, she must bear with it.
‘You can do it, Yna. We’ve been far ahead.’ She whispered at the back of her head.
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