** Hi everyone. My computer broke and I was really busy with some things. Anyway, here is the second installment of my story. For those of you that are wondering who Eric is, who Josh works for and all those other juicy questions, you'll get a little taste of answers. Be patient if you're waiting for sex. It's coming, I promise.**
"Oh come on! You look terrified, it can't be that bad." Josh smiled at Adalynn as she eyed the roller coaster.
"I'm just.. scared of heights is all.." she whimpered, squeezing his hand almost painfully.
"Why?" Josh's eyes seemed to see right through her.
"Because, I could fall and die.. Something could go wrong and I could get hurt."
Josh chuckled as they moved forward in line, "Sweetheart, I would never let that happen to you. I'm a natural born protector.. and I love you deeply. I will never let anything bad happen to you, ever."
"Never?"
"Never, ever my love."
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Adalynn was still in shock as she listened to the words of the man who held her by her hair in her own home.
"My name is Victor, and I am going to kidnap your tight little girlfriend here. Then, I'm going to sell her as a sex slave to someone who will surely ruin her, and in turn, ruin you. How does that sound?"
She couldn't hear what her precious fiancΓ© said, but she started to cry as she listened to the man's response.
"Exactly Mr. Xavier. I'm curious to see just how innocent her cute little mind and body are, and then I will have the extreme pleasure of taking all that innocence away. Destroying her hopes and dreams. This is your fault Joshua. You killed someone very close to my best friend... Nope, but it will make my best friend feel much, much better."
The man, Victor, threw the phone on the ground and crushed it with his foot. It was then that Adalynn remembered some things that Joshua had taught her. She jumped to her feet and Victor's grip slipped a little. Pain shot through Adalynn's body but she put all of her force into a punch straight to Victor's nose.
He stumbled back and held his bleeding nose. "Ouch! You fucking-"
Adalynn took a deep breath and grabbed the pistol. She aimed it at Victor and glared at him. "Don't come near me." She bit her lip and grabbed her car keys from her desk before kicking Victor as hard as she could in the face. He fell over, silent.
She could hear footsteps coming up the stairs and quickly grabbed her robe and climbed out of the window. Then she held her breath and jumped from the second story, landing like Josh had taught her to avoid injury. Her 2005, red, Mustang GT was in the driveway. There was a black small car parked on the side of her house.
Adalynn got in her car and sped off, seeing two men run out of her house after her.
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"Wait what? Someone snatched Addi?" Harry nearly punched a hole in his computer, "What the fuck do you mean Josh? YOU SAID SHE'D BE FINE!"
"Look, Harry... I had no idea that it was me!"
"You fucking dumbass! I told you to go home! Why weren't you there? Why didn't you go get her?!"
"Brother, you know I'd never let anything happen to her."
"You fucking did Joshua. I trusted you with protecting my baby sister and you fucking failed." Henry threw his coffee cup across the room. "You are not my brother. And if you want to keep breathing, I suggest you find her."
For the second time that evening, Joshua heard the line go dead. He drove for five more minutes before he sped into Adalynn's driveway. He burst through the door and looked around. Everything looked fine. He ran up the stairs and looked in her room.
"Oh my god..." He cursed as he saw blood all over the carpet. He fell to his knees as tears filled his eyes. "No.. no.. Addi..." He grabbed the bloody carpet and checked to see if there was enough blood loss to mean she was killed. He figured it was a cut or a broken nose.
Then he saw the shoebox and noticed the gun missing. After searching around the room he noticed her dress and underwear were laid out nicely on the bed, meaning she was in the shower when they came. He looked at the open window and had a sliver of hope as he looked outside of it and noticed her car was gone. "Addi.." He smiled, hoping she had gotten away.
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"Now it's not as bad as it looks. All you have to do is jump and roll out of it when you hit the ground." Joshua looked up at his terrified girlfriend.
"No! I can't! I'm on the second story of my house. I'll break my legs!" Adalynn cried as she looked out of her window.
"Trust me baby."
Then, she jumped. Her eyes were closed as she screamed. Josh caught her though, not letting a single piece of her touch the ground. She looked into his blue-green eyes and smiled, "You caught me!" She gasped.
"And I will keep catching you until you are comfortable landing."
"Why do I have to do this? I don't like heights! I'm not going to be jumping out of this window!"
"Addi. I told you, it's an important skill to have. Just in case..."
"Fine... I'll go again in five minutes."
They spent hours together doing that and finally she landed successfully three times in a row.
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Adalynn took the back roads until she hit a cheap looking motel. She parked her car there and checked her purse for cash, only a five dollar bill. "Shit." She mumbled before she grabbed a knife from the glove department and ripped open the fabric underneath her passenger seat. Three hundred dollars fell into her hands. Another one of Joshua's tactics. She put on her robe and put the gun and knife into her purse before running to the office of the motel.
A teenage boy, most likely her age, sat at the desk and smiled as Adalynn walked in. She winked at him and asked for a room, handing him fifty extra dollars.
"Uh.. Ma'm. The room is only-"
"Oh, I know. Do you mind doing me a favor? See that mustang? Drive it to the next motel you see, and park it there. Then call a cab and come back, and I'll pay you more."
"Uh.. Are you running from the police? Cause I don't want to get in trouble or anything.."
"Do you want the money? I'm not asking you to kill anyone."
"Well, yeah..."
"Then do it and come to my room after. Take a break from work.. You barely have customers anyway." She winked and headed to her room as the boy took the keys.
"Shit..." She exhaled as she closed and locked her door. She grabbed the phone and dialed Joshua's cell.
"Hello." His voice sounded different. Sad.
"Baby? Josh?" She whimpered into the phone.
"Addi? Adalynn?" He gasped. She could hear him slam on his brakes.
"Hi honey. Please come get me. I'm so scared... I.. They came after me. I'm in a cheap motel. I'm so scared babe." She was sobbing now.
"Shh.. Addi, it'll be okay. Don't tell me the name of the motel. They may have bugged my phone."
"They? Who the hell are they? Is this because of work? I thought you worked for the government.. You said that the people you interrogated were already in prison. How could anyone come after me? How did they know where I lived?" She choked on her words.