You Can Run But You Can't Hide My Contractual Wife novel Chapter 53

In the darkness, she forced herself to see the light. She kept on running to escape from the place without any direction. She couldn’t see any path to follow, but she just kept on running afraid of being trapped in the dark forever.

“My Boss wanted us to kill you!”

“Your fake husband wanted us to kill you!”

“Bill wanted you to be dead!”

All these words kept on hounding her while she was running and Bill’s devilishly face appeared in the dark laughing wickedly like the mastermind who triumphantly put her into her situation right now.

Scared, tired and tormented, she refused to stop and let the evil man decide her destiny. She refused to be imprisoned in the dark forever. She shook her head to get rid of Bill’s devilish face and covered her ears with her hands to avoid hearing those awful words that lingered repetitively in her head. With almost lacking the strength to run, she forced herself even if she was already enervated until she saw a small glimmer of light. With her remaining breath, she weakly ran after the light with the hope that it’s the door to the bright side, it’s the door to her freedom, but the more she ran, the light seemed to be moving away.

“Please don’t go away! Please!” Arabella howled. She was begging and crying helplessly.

She never stopped moving towards the light, but it was slowly fading away.

“No!” Arabella yowled in disquietude while chasing her breathe.

With all her hopes drained up, she kneeled on the ground and cried her heart out. She shoved her head on her knees while her arms were tightly hugging them. Trembling in fear mixed with the feeling of being alone and imprisoned in the dark, she was intensely sobbing in her helplessness until she had felt extreme pain in her head. She couldn’t bear the pain so she held her head with her two hands and she leaned it to the ground. She was struggling with so much pain in the head that she wanted to bump her head on the hard ground.

Then suddenly, she saw a picture of herself when she was a kid. Then after that, mixed scenes and shambled memories of her childhood kept on popping out uncontrollably like a puzzle that was unassembled but the parts were already laid down on the table.

As the unbearable pain continued, she forced her mind to remember everything with the hope to stop the scorching pain. All her life, she felt incomplete because of her incapability to remember that part of her existence. Whenever she asked her parents why she had lost her memories, they always changed the topic and said to forget those memories. She knew they were hiding something from her and she could sense that it was tragic that’s why they don’t want to talk about it.

Now that the pieces of her memories were out, it was all up to her to solve the puzzle.

She saw a kid version of herself happily playing in the park with her parents until she was captured by bad men and put her in a black van. She did a lot of crying until a fat man covered her mouth with a duct tape. Then all she could do was to cry with, no sound and only her tears uncontrollably flowing down.

Then she woke up in a dark place sitting on the ground with her hands and feet tied up with a rope. Scared young Arabella tried to make a sound, but the duct tape on her mouth deprived her to shout for help. She could only make a very small sound. After feeling helpless, she cried a lot in fear when somebody held her hand. At first, young Arabella was frightened and struggled from her position wanting to be released from the tie, but to her surprise, the hand that was holding her was just a little bigger than her hand.

“Do not cry.” A boy’s voice came out. It was calm even they were in the dark place. There was no light at all she could see was the silhouette of a boy a little bigger than her.

Knowing that she was not alone in the dark room, young Arabella wiped her tears, “Who are you?” then she asked.

“I’m also a kid and I was also kidnapped just like you.” He cooed.

Even in the dark, she could tell that he was a kid like her. It seemed that he was already there for a long time before she arrived that he managed to take away the duct tape on his mouth.

“What are they going to do with us?” She catechized with trembling voice.

“Shhhh… Don’t be afraid. Don’t move. I will help you to take off the tape on your mouth, but you have to promise me that you won’t shout. Okay?” The boy conveyed calmly without any trace of fear in his voice.

With still tears rolling down from her eyes, young Arabella slightly nodded her head to send him a message that she understood and she agreed with him. She didn’t move and that was the only time, she realized that the boy loosened all the ropes on his body. He managed to scratch off the duct tape on her mouth in the dark by gently holding her face tracing down the direction of her mouth.

“Thank you.” With a low voice, young Arabella said. She felt relieved after she was released from the ropes, but somehow great fear was still invading her young mind.

“Shhhh… Just be quiet the men might hear us.” The boy whispered. “I’ve been here for 3 days already and I already checked this room, there were no exits. Not even windows.” He added with low voice.

Right after his words, she heard people outside talking.

“Big Boss said to kill the kids after we get the money.” A hoarse voice of a man could be heard.

“That was easy to do. I like killing kids. They are just like insects to me.” Another man replied.

Hearing the men’s deleterious conversation, young Arabella couldn’t help herself but to cry again. She imagined the man like a humongous ugly monster that could eat them in whole like insects. Young Arabella trembled in fear.

“Shhh… Don’t make any sound. Let me think of a way for us to get out here.” The young boy said, trying to make her calm down.

“But I want to go home now. I miss my parents.” Young Arabella tried to make her crying low.