Please Come Back, My Love novel Chapter 107

Chapter 107-

Elena: POV

Where do I go?

Then it hit me.

Florida.

Mom was in Florida. She’d moved there two weeks ago. Said she needed a fresh start. Warm weather. A Nittle house by the beach.

She’d understand. She always did.

I could tell her I needed a vacation. Some time to clear my head. She wouldn’t ask questions. Wouldn’t judge.

She’d just… hold me.

The way she did when I was little. When I scraped my knee. When other kids made fun of my secondhand clothes.

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Mom will know what to do.

I grabbed my phone. Started searching for flights.

JFK to Tampa. 6:45 a.m. $287.

I could make it. If I left now.

My finger hovered over “Purchase.”

Then I heard it.

Footsteps.

Outside. On the gravel driveway.

I froze.

Someone’s out there.

I crept to the window. Pulled back the curtain just a crack.

A dark figure. Standing near the gate. Cigarette glowing orange in the darkness.

Julian’s security.

Of course. He’d said it himself three days ago. I’ve arranged protection for you.”

At the time, I’d thought it was sweet. Protective.

2:10 pm

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Now felt like a cage.

I looked down at my phone. At the flight booking page.

How do I get past them?

I spent the next hour planning.

The villa had multiple exits. Front door. Kitchen door. The side entrance near the garden.

Security would be watching the main gate. Maybe the driveway.

But they wouldn’t expect me to leave at four in the morning.

They’d think I was asleep. Grieving. Broken.

Good.

I changed into dark clothes, Black leggings. Oversized hoodie. Sneakers.

Stuffed cash into my pockets. Three hundred dollars Id been saving. Just in case.

Just in case of this.

I looked around the master bedroom one last time.

Cream walls. Silk curtains. The bed where Julian had touched me. Kissed me. Promised things he never meant.

Three years I’d lived here.

Three years of pretending.

I pressed my palm against my stomach.

“We’re leaving, baby, I whispered. “Going somewhere safe.”

Somewhere Julian couldn’t find us.

Somewhere he couldn’t pressure me to “terminate if the tests came back wrong.

I grabbed my bag. Headed downstairs.

The villa was dark. Silent. Every creak of the floorboards sounded like thunder.

I made it to the kitchen. Pulled out my phone.

Checked the security camera feed. Julian had given me access months ago. ‘So you feel safe, he’d said.

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yop feel trapped, I thought now.

Two guards. One at the front gate. One patrolling the perimeter.

Shit.

I watched the patrol guard’s pattern. He circled the house every fifteen minutes.

1 had a window. Small. But enough.

I waited until he passed the kitchen door. Counted to sixty.

Then I slipped outside.

The November air bit through my hoodie.

sta low. I

Moved quickly across the lawn.

The side gate. That was my target. It led to the neighbors property. Abandoned house. No one lived there.

From there, I could cut through to the main road.

I was almost at the side gate when-

“Mrs. Sterling?”

Fuck.

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