?HELD HOSTAGE?
(He kills for a living? )
Chapter 53
?Rated 18+ ⚠️
DON’T COPY OR REPOST
Novella✍️
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“Come on Lila, wake up!”Sam shook the sleepy Lila on the bed.
She groaned weakly and slapped Sam’s hand off her body “I have to sleep Sam. I’m all sore”she complained.
“You have to eat!”Sam stated, worried.
She drousily opened her eyes and met with the bright rays of sun peeking through the window. She looked beside her and couldn’t find Lannon. She frowned immediately.
“Where is Lannon?”she asked, turning to Sam whilst trying to sit up and covering her naked self with the duvet.
“He left. He had to take care of something.”Sam replied.
She sulked and stared into space as she suddenly felt withdrawn from the place on which she sat. All that happened with Lannon was so real but why did she feel like it was dream. He said he had loved her and the blood stained sheet she sat on was clear evidence that everything was real.
“Sam it wasn’t a dream!”she suddenly blurted out excitedly.
Sam looked at her in a muddle before asking, “what are you talking about?”she cringed her brows.
” Lannon said he loved me”she smiled sheepishly.
Sam sighed. Of course, she knew Lannon had fallen in love with Lila long ago. It wasn’t so easy for him to own up anyway. She was glad at least her best friend had found love.
“I’m happy Lila. I’m really happy for you. At least this could let you forget about you traumatic experience”she smiled.
Lila smiled genuinely, “I’m happy too Sam”she said as she stood from the bed trying to cover her naked self with the duvet.
Sam noticed and she knew what was going on”you had sëx last night Lila?”she asked.
“What?!”Lila tried to feign ignorance. Somehow she was embarrassed.
“I know that look Lila. The hickey’s are vivid. It’s your first!!”
“Sam shut up!”Lila bashfully yelled.
“Oh, so you weren’t planning on telling me. You can barely walk”Sam laughed.
“Don’t mock me Sam”
Sam laughed the more”how was it? Was he gentle?”
“Sam!”
“We are bestfriend’s Lila”
“Well I know. I’m certainly not going to be sharing my intimate experience with you. Who the hell does that?!”exclaimed Lila.
“Bestfriend’s!”came Sam’s naughty reply.
Lila peeled off the duvet from her body and threw it at Sam”C’mon. You can’t be that naughty”she chided.
Sam threw off the duvet from her body as she screamed in disgust”Lila, that duvet is filled with you guys cvms and you threw it at me”she stuck out her tongue as she dribbled saliva from it.
Lila laughed”I have to bath Sam”she turned towards the bathroom but suddenly heard Sam’s squeal.
“Is that a hickey on your butt?!”Sam teased.
She knew she had to hurriedly leap out of Sam’s sight or she was going to get more embarrassed.
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Lannon was back at the disguised plant house and had unchained Rodger. He gave him a mission to find Dave at all cost and bring him to him alive.
He wasn’t going to spare him but first he needed Lila to know about her father still alive.
“You will get treated. I’m not sparing you Rodger. Note that!”he looked at the groaning Rodger in pain before handing him over to one of his guard.
“Watch him closely sprite. There should be no mistake!”he ordered.
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Lila was done with bathing and had dressed in a blue jean trouser and a yellow polo. Sam had left her breakfast on the bedside table and had also helped to get the bed dressed in new sheets.
She sat on her bed and just about picking up the tray to her laps, something crashed into the room. She stood up immediately startled and she sighted a drone flying into the room through the window that had shattered. She cringed her brows as the drone jammed to the wall and fell to the ground, losing its current.
She carefully walked up to it, quite inquisitive and she saw a paper beside it that had fell out from it. She picked the paper and curiously opened it and it read
*This is special. Meet me at the gate.*
She ran to the shattered window immediately and looked through it hoping to find who must have flown the drone or who could be the person at the gate.
She couldn’t sight any thing and she frowned and read the paper again. She really didn’t have a good feeling about it but either way, she ran out of her room without second thought and she was heading for the gate.
When she got there, she was panting from all her race. She looked around but couldn’t find anyone.
“Lannon?”that was the first name she could think off. Who knew, maybe he was trying to surprise her.
The gate was built with striped steels that gave two inches space between each of them. So, she could practically see the other side behind the gates.
She looked around closely again while calling Lannon but then she suddenly saw an advanced man walk to the gate, by the other side. Her eyes dimmed in confusion before it finally widened in realisation.
“Dad?”she cofusedly muttered as she watched the person come up close to the gate that demarcated them, smirk.
Then she suddenly laughed”lannon what a nice costume” she nervously said. It was so real.
The face was exactly like her dad’s, just how he had always been.
The man stared at her, watching her every confused and nervous expression with a smug smile. Then he spread out his arms invitingly,
” Well hello daughter. This is papa”he smirked.
The voice, the smile, everything was so real. It was certainly not Lannon.
“Dad?”she called again, gulping Saliva nervously and she took slow steps, further to the gate.
“Yes daughter”the man said.
She shook her head. Her dad was dead. He had died weeks back. Whoever that person was, he was only trying to deceive her.
“Daddy?”she called again as she was now taking steps backwards in fright.
The man inched closer to the gate desperately as he held on to the striped steels with a hungry expression on his face.”This is daddy. Open for daddy Lila.”
“Stop it!”she screamed, fidgeting “Go away please”tears slipped from her eyes. Did she miss her dad so much, she could now see his ghost?
“C’mon feel me, touch me. I’m alive”he continued talking.
She took bold steps and got to where he was and slowly, she felt his outstretched hand towards her and her breath hitched immediately, her eyes dilated and adrenaline surged through her system. She fell to the ground in shock as she covered her mouth whilst gasping.
“Daddy,”tears trickled down her cheek” you died. I thought you died”she cried realising that was really her father. It was no joke.
“Open up baby. Daddy has come to take you Home”Dave cooed.
She looked at him, he stared at her. And just like she’d been possessed, she stood up from the ground and moved to the gate, trying to open it with her thumbprint when she suddenly was stopped by Lannon’s yell.
“Lila!!!!” He was literally running towards her.
She hiccuped as she turned to Lannon.”Lannon, my dad is alive!”she reported excitedly as she turned to show Lannon Dave but he wasn’t there anymore.
She frowned immediately and turned back to Lannon in another type of confusion”He was right here. I saw him. I saw him Lannon. He called my name. He didn’t lie”she cried trying to prove herself.
” Lila….”he stood a distance away from her.
“No, no. Please don’t think I’m crazy Lannon. Believe me!”she cried.
“I believe you Lila”came Lannon’s careful reply.
She smiled upon hearing him. “You believe me?”she asked and he nodded. She ran to him and hugged him firmly.
“Thank you”she smiled then looked up at him”lets go get him. He must not have gone so far. He was probably scared so he ran away”he begged.
“Your father is not who you think he is!”
Lannon’s word took her into another moment of shock and she pulled away from the hug.
“What do you mean?”she asked.”yes, I know he was into child trafficking but everyone could be given a second chance.”She defended. “What are you…..”
“Your father kidnapped you!!!”Lannon cut her off.
“What?!”she wasn’t sure what she heard.
“You heard me Lila” Lannon’s face was without expression as he spoke. He knew he had to tell her the brutal truth, that was the only way they could end Dave forever. “Your father was the one in charge of those that kidnapped you. He R@PED your mother, he wanted a treasure from her and you know what, he wants you dead.”he blurted all at once. He knew it was going to hurt but he had to let her know.
“What are you saying Lannon?” Lila asked as she staggered back and shaking her head in disbelief.
“I’m saying, Lila, that your dad is a murderer”he stated.
She shook her head in disbelief, no she was never going to believe. But seeing how everything that had happened recently pulled together, it made a whole lot of sense. The deep baritone voiced man, the weird dream she had, her mum talking about a treasure. Everything was pointing to the fact that her dad wanted her dead.
He was after her mum so that was the reason they had coincidentally met when she had escaped. It was all him. Her father!
“Lannon!”she cried. “Lannon..”She called his name again. She didn’t know why she was calling him, maybe because he wasn’t coming to her and he just stood distance away like he avoided her.
“I’m not going to believe that!”she stated firmly and the next second she was running. She didn’t even spare him a glance, she ran past him back to the mansion.
Luckily, Sam and her mum were not there to obstruct her movement. So, she got to her room and slumped on the floor immediately and she screamed and cried in agony.
Tbc
