Authors: M. M. Crow
“Hand over your phone and car keys.” He says to me.
I was about to turn around and tell him to fuck off when I felt the barrel of the gun in my side. I handed over my phone and keys and he unlocked the door and reached around me to open it. He then pushed me up against the seat.
“Put your fucking hands behind your back.” He orders.
Once I put my hands behind my back he put handcuffs on me. Pete opened the back door and threw me in. I didn’t even have time to think about what was really going on. I think back and I could’ve kicked him in the shin or balls. I could’ve head butted him or screamed but I didn’t do any of those things. We made one stop and I see the sign for Gary’s Lounge. I think to myself; I haven’t even seen the surrounding areas of where I moved to. I haven’t gotten to see everything I wanted to see. Am I going to survive this? Will I see my children grow up? Graduate high school? Go to college? Will I see Jasmine in her wedding gown? Jameson in his tux waiting on his bride to come down the aisle? Will I see Jasmine pregnant with her own children? Jamie doting on his own babies? Will I see Dean again? Will he raise our children alone? I hope to god I can find a way out of this mess. Maybe he just wants money. Where is my mother? Is she in on all this? I bet my ass she is. I always knew she hated me but to fucking kidnap me! Do they really think they’ll get away with this? I think I might be going into shock or something. I’m so fucking scared right now. I wish I had held my babies a little tighter. Told mamaw and papaw they’re everything I wished for as a child. I wish I had told my dad I loved him and I know that if he had known about me he would have found me and taken my away from Ali. I know I would’ve been raised with love and compassion. I wish I could tell my man I love him. Am I going to see him grow old and get grey hair? Are we going to get a long life together? I have to make peace knowing that I’ll probably never have the life I wanted. I come back from my thoughts and there’s my fucking mother waiting for us just like I fucking figured she would be.
“Where they are taking me?
“Shut the fuck up.” Ali says as she slams my face into the window.
I get moved from my car and into another vehicle that has seen better days. I guess if you’re going to kidnap someone you don’t want to use your own fucking car. Ali gets into the front seat and turns her head and looks at me in a smug expression.
“Well look what we have here. I hope you weren’t too comfortable in your little life. Once we get the ransom for you we’re going to mutilate your body until nobody can identify you.” She says with glee.
I look into her eyes and I know that she means what she’s saying. Fuck I’m so scared. Tears start to run down my face.
“I can’t fucking wait to cut off your fingers and pull out your teeth.” She says with distain in her voice.
She smiles at me and gets something out of her bag. She turns around from the front seat and puts what looks like a black pillow case over my head. I hear what sounds like tape being wrapped round my neck. After she is done she shoves me down onto the floor.
“If I see you lift your head I’ll stab you in the fucking face.”
I know she’s telling the truth so I stay down. I try and listen to where we’re going or the sounds I can hear outside of the car. I can’t concentrate on the sounds outside because I hear Ali and Pete talking about taking me to the abandoned cabin on the property next to his. I listen and think I didn’t even know he had property here. I wonder if my grandparents or dad know or if they’ll even figure out who took me in time. I try to keep my hopes up but I know in my heart I won’t be getting out of this uninjured or even alive. I hear them talk about Ali dropping us off and going back to Lexington. So when the police ask her questions about my disappearance she can lead them to believe she has no idea what’s going on and act like a worried sick mother.
“You need to check to see if the off shore account is set up for when the ransom is paid it can’t be traced to us. Don’t to call me until after the police have questioned you. You’ll then have to sneak away and come back up and we’ll finish Lyric off and drive into North Carolina and jump a plane to Mexico. Then they’ll talk about where to go from there.” Pete says to her.
I realize that they’ve been planning this for a while and wonder what happened to them to make them such monsters. I feel the tears start to come down again and I know in my heart they’re going to kill me. I’ll never see my children again. I’ll never get to walk down the Aisle in my Wedding Dress or have another baby with Dean. I have to stop thinking these thoughts because I feel my heart breaking and I’m having trouble breathing. I don’t need them to notice me in this state. I concentrate on what I hear outside of the car and I feel the road under me. It’s paved I can also tell we are climbing up a mountain. I think we’re either in Virginia or close to the State Line. I think we’ve driven for about an hour when we turn right onto a gravel road. We continue on this road for about twenty minutes before we turn right again onto another gravel road. We’re on this road for twenty more minutes and I know we’re in the middle of nowhere. I’m getting more and more scared every second. I can only imagine what’s in store for me. I fill the car stop and hear them get out and I listen to the trunk open and they’re grabbing stuff out. I hear what sounds like them going up stairs and then a door open. I hear them come back out and grab more stuff and I wonder what all they have in the trunk and I know that’s why they couldn’t put me back in there. I hear them disappear back into what I assume is the cabin they were talking about earlier. A few minutes later one of them comes back and opens the door and I know right away it’s Pete. He grabs me and picks me up like a sack of potatoes and carries me into the cabin. I feel him go through a door and then he drops me onto the floor. He walks away and I hear them talking but I can’t understand what’s being said. I feel and hear footsteps coming back into the room. The next thing I know I’m being kicked and stomped on. I try to get into the fetal position but I can still feel the brunt of the kicks. I feel the pain of being punched and my hair being ripped from my head even with the pillow case over my head. I feel my self being dragged further into a room and then I feel a really sharp pain in my face then a burst of light and a burning sensation in my face before I feel blood start to pour out my face and I hear Ali laugh. She gets down close to my face and she tells me:
“I can’t fucking wait to come back here and gut you. I’m going to take the majority of the money that should have been mine and disappear. Your body won’t be discovered for years if ever and I’ll be gone living the life I should of had all along.” She says to me with glee in her voice.
I’m so sick of hearing her say that to me after all these years. If she’s going to kill me I’ve got nothing to lose by telling her what I think.
“I didn’t ask for you to get pregnant with me. I didn’t fucking ask to be born. I didn’t fucking ask for you to keep me. You could’ve told dad the truth. You could’ve given me to my grandparents. You could’ve let dad have me. You could’ve given me away. You could’ve dropped me at the hospital, firehouse, church, or a police station. You could’ve not have been a slut and gotten pregnant in the first fucking place. This isn’t my fucking fault bitch. This is your fucking fault you crazy ass fucking cunt. You hate me and I never did anything to make you hate me. I just wanted your fucking love. You hate me because I’m your living fucking regret of things you did to your fucking self. You won’t get any fucking money you think you’ll get fucking cunt. I put the money into CD’s Bonds, and trusts for my children. I didn’t hardly keep any money in open fucking accounts. So the joke is fucking on you. Nobody can give you the fucking money you think you’re fucking owed. In the case of my death or disappearance the money in the open accounts get fucking frozen. So as of right about fucking now nobody can access the fucking money. Titan’s fucking money is also all wrapped up in his fucking companies. Dad has money but his is also all fucking wrapped up in his companies with the MC. So seeing as I’m going to fucking die because you hate me so fucking much and wanted the fucking money so bad we all lose don’t we you fucking cunt whore bitch.”
Ali lets out a scream and starts to kick me and stomp on every available inch she can. I feel like I’m about to die and I pull up an images of my babies and my man as she kicks me in the head and everything goes black.
I come to sometime later and I feel like every bone in my body’s broken. It hurts and burns to even breath. I try to keep from crying out as tears run down my face and I wonder where Ali and Pete are and if they’ve decided to kill me without even asking for the ransom. I don’t have to think about it too much longer. I feel someone’s shoe nudge me and I can’t help myself but groan and cry out.
“Lyric you shouldn’t have instigated Ali like you did.” Pete says to me.
I hear and feel him drop something on the floor next to me. I hear him doing something and then I hear what sounds like an air pump and realize he’s blowing up an air mattress. When the mattress is blown up I hear what sounds like him making the bed.
“I’m going to lift you and put you on the bed.” He says as he bends down over me.
He picks me up and I can’t help myself but to cry out in pain again. I’ve never felt this much pain in my life and I wish I would pass out again. He puts me into a sitting position and undoes the hand cuffs. I cry out again as he tries to massage my hands and arms to get the blood circulation back in them.
“I’m going to take the pillow case off of you head so you can drink a little water.” He says as he lays me down.
He removes the pillow case and it takes me a minute to get my sight back after being in the dark for so long.
“How long have I been out?”
“You’ve been passed out for about fourteen hours. It’s just the two of us now.” He says to me.
I hear a strange emotion in his voice and I pray I’m wrong. I look at him and my worst fears are now coming to light. I always thought he looked at me a little too long and made me feel weird. I try to move away from him.
“Relax Lyric I’m not going to hurt you. Take a couple of sips.”
He moves away from me and grabs the bottle of water off of the floor. I do as he says and I know I won’t be able to fight him off when he decides he wants to take me but I’ll fight with all my might though.
“I’ll cuff your hands in front of you this time that way you can drink and eat on your own.” He says to me.
Pete takes his hand and moves the hair off of my face.
“I’ve always thought you were beautiful. Ali and I would get into fights over the fact that she knew I wanted you.”
“You knew you were my uncle. Why did you let me live the life I lead with her? You could’ve just told my dad or your parents.” I ask wondering if I can persuade him with me being his family.
“The first couple of years I thought about it but I wanted to punish your dad. Then as you got older I wanted you for myself. I wouldn’t have been able to have you if Eric, Captain, and momma knew about you. I was going to make you mine but then that little fucker moved in next door and you gave yourself to him. I watched you through the window the night you fucked that piece of shit the first time. I had to get rid of him so I went back and told Ali you were fucking the neighbor boy. She got pissed because she wanted him for herself and you had taken yet another thing she wanted. She threatened that boy and when he left I thought I was in the clear to have you but then I found out you were pregnant with those little bastards of his and you moved out. I have been waiting years to have a taste of you and know I’ll be the last man to ever have you but I want you to rest tonight.”
I’m so scared and sick to my stomach at the same time. I now know that I’ll be raped along with being beaten and killed. I’m thankful Jess never met him and he doesn’t know anything about her being his daughter. I could just imagine what kind of hell she would of been put through if he knew. I know I have to stay strong to fight him as much as I possibly can. I try to think of different ways I can physically hurt him to keep him away from me. I know that I’ll hurt myself in the process but at this point if I can hurt him enough that he’ll just kill me without being raped.
“You do realize that there’ll be no money for me? Neither you or Ali can’t touch the money. Papaw, dad and the rest of the brothers will figure out you and Ali took me. When they find out there will be nowhere on this earth you’ll be able to go or hide from them.”
I can tell I’m getting to him because his face starts to get red and his fist are clenched.