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Lily had searched online for nearby housing options.
Not far from the hotel, there were apartment buildings and even a few stand–alone vis.
She could buy a little vi, learn to grow vegetables, tend to flowers and nts. Ideally, there’d be a small stream next to it–so on quiet days, she could catch fish and make fresh fish soup.
The beautiful scenery was truly healing.
Surrounded by nature, Lily felt hopeful about the future.
She strolled around the hotel grounds for quite a while before finally checking in.
First ss had beenfortable.
But she was pregnant. After hours on a ne and then more–time in a cab, she still felt drained.
She swiped her keycard and opened the door, tossed her luggage aside, and headed for the bathroom to shower and rest.
She grabbed her pajamas, still fully clothed, and hummed a cheerful tune as she walked toward the bathroom.
Just before reaching the door, she remembered she hadn’t turned her phone back on. She powered it up.
To her surprise, she had several missed calls from James.
Worried that something might’ve happened, she called him back as she pushed open the bathroom door.
“Lily, we’ve been waiting for you.”
She never expected to see two brutish, hideous men with twisted, evil grins staring back at her.
They knew her name.
She had never met them before, never crossed paths–clearly, someone had sent them. This was premeditated. They’d been hiding in her room, waiting.
This hotel didn’t have high upancy
Even if she booked in advance, the hotel wouldn’t have preassigned a specific room. Staff usually picked a room at check–in based on avability.
Yet these two men had been waiting in her bathroom.
The front desk clerk must have been bribed.
And the only ones who would go to such lengths to destroy her… were Mathilda and Elsa.
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“James, call the police, I-”
The call had gone through.
Without wasting a second, Lily shouted for James to report to the police and turned to run.
She hadn’t expected that inside the wardrobe, two more women had been hiding.
The sound from that direction made it clear.
Before she could even react, a thin, sharp–checked woman lunged forward, snatched the phone <b>from </b><b>her </b>hand, and flung it out the window.
A second woman, taller and stronger, mmed a heavy stick down on the back of Lily’s neck.
She’d read in novels and seen on TV that a strike to the back of the neck usually knocked someone unconscious.
But in reality, a blow like that didn’t knock people out instantly.
Lily didn’t lose consciousness, but her vision went dark and she nearly copsed.
She had no chance against the four of them.
And if the front desk clerk had already been bought, even running there wouldn’t help.
Her only hope was to escape the hotel entirely.
There was a residentialplex nearby. If she could make it there, she might reach the security guards and use their phone to call the police.
Ignoring the blinding pain in her neck, she bolted for the door.
But the two men moved faster.
They mmed her against the door and held her down, while the two women expertly tied her hands and feet with thick rope. One of them pped duct tape over her mouth, silencing herpletely.
Let me go!
She screamed inside her mind.
If she were alone, maybe she wouldn’t be this afraid.
But she was carrying a child.
If she lost the ability to resist and fell into these monsters‘ hands, she wouldn’t be able to protect the tiny life inside her.
The woman with the sharp cheekbones pulled out arge bup sack.
As the sack closed around her, Lily’s heart sank into <b>a </b>sea of despair.
She had thought this little town–so full of mountains and rivers<b>–</b>would be her <b>sanctuary</b>.
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She hade here to escape the chaos of Capital City.
To leave behind people like John, Simon, Mergan, Elsa, Mathilda.
But in that moment, she finally understood.
There was no such thing as a safe haven in this world.
Even if she never provoked those lunatics, they’d never leave her alone.
If she survived this-
She would never again stay on the defensive. She would never again <i>try </i>to quietly escape the storm.
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