Chapter 27

**Skyler Johnson**

I run down a barely lit hall before I get to the end and find stairs going upwards but I can hear people coming down so I quickly duck under the stairs. Two men come running down them and into towards the room where the girl is now dead as I quietly make my way out of my hiding place and up the stairs. When I get to the top I take a right and hope I'm going in the right direction as I run down the hallway.

"Find her!" Someone yells and the voice sends shivers of fear running down my spine. At the end of the hall I realize I made the wrong turn so I backtrack and go left, thankful they haven't found me yet. Soon I find myself standing in an empty kitchen and I slip out through the open sliding door.

"She's outside." A voice yells from somewhere in the tree line and I make a mad dash in the opposite direction only to be pulled back by my hair. I land on the ground with a painful thud and the gun is ripped out of my hands. As my eyes focus on the man standing above me they widen in surprise although I know I shouldn't be all that taken aback.

"You took longer than I thought." He says, pulling me up by my hair causing me to let out a painful scream. "Oh, shut up. I'm going to do a lot worse than this to you now." He says and I can hear the promise in his voice. My feet drag behind me because he's moving to fast for me to keep up and he still has my head in a uncomfortable angle by my hair. It's not long before I'm thrown on a tiled floor and a door closes behind me.

"What do you want to do with her?" A voice asks from behind me but I don't dare to look up.

"Throw her with the other one." He says before I'm dragged away again. I flail my arms but the guy traps them by my sides before picking me up again and heading in the direction I cam from. Tears run down my eyes as he takes me back down the stairs but this time he stops at the first door in the hallway.

"Play nice now." He says before unlocking the door and throwing me into the room. The door is closed before I can get back up and I bang on it, begging for him to let me out, although I know he won't.

"Will you stop it?" A familiar voice shouts from behind me and I turn around, my heart breaking at the sight of the blond haired guy sitting in the corner of the room. "Surprised? I was too." He says as I stare at him in shock.

"What are you doing here?" I ask him because my brain can't seem to function right now.

"I'm on vacation, what the hell do you think I'm doing here?" He asks, anger shining in his eyes. "This is all your fault you know, two weeks in this hell hole all because I know you." He says and my eyes widen. "Yeah, they grabbed me on my way to my car the morning after you were there and I've been here ever since." He says and I frown.

"Why would they take you?" I ask and he looks at me like he thinks I was dropped as a baby.

"Because you can't seem to leave me the hell alone. They must think I actually mean something to you so they took me to scare you." He says and I shake my head.

"I would have tried to find you if I knew you were taken. You told me to stay away, remember and Nat kept on telling me you want nothing to do with me every time I asked her about you." I tell him and he cocks his head to the side.

"I haven't talked to Nat in a long while. Since before you broke up with me to go date a killer." He says and I flinch back at the tone of his voice.

"No, she told me that you kept on telling her to leave you alone every time I called." I say and he shakes his head.

"I probably would have but we're not really friends, we only hung out because we're both friends with you." He says and I slide down the wall, confused about this whole thing.

"Then why would she..?" I trail of but he shrugs.

"I have no idea. All I know I'm here because of you." He says and I sigh.

"I'm sorry Tristan. I never wanted to drag you into all this mess. I broke up with you so you wouldn't get hurt. I did all of this because I didn't want you to get hurt." I tell him and he gives me a confused look.

"All of what?" He asks and I sigh. I might as well tell him since all we have is each other to talk to in this room and so I tell him. I tell him everything, even that I'm in love with Xavier and I can tell that he doesn't want to hear that but I can't keep it from him anymore.

"And now we're here." I say as silence falls over us. "I'm so sorry." I tell him once more but before he can say anything the door opens and two big muscled men walk in. They each grab one of us and we're dragged up the stairs.

"Be gentle." The blue eyed man says as the guys throws us on the floor in front of his feet. "I need Skyler unharmed if this is going to work." He says with a sick smile on his face.

"What about him?" One of the two men asks and Demetri shrugs his shoulders causing the man to kick Tristan in his stomach and I let out a scream. He kicks him again and the other two men in the room laughs as tears falls down my cheeks.

"Stop it!" I scream as he kicks him for the third time and they all look at me like they've forgotten that I was even in the room.

"Okay, guys. I think that's enough for now." He says and I glare up at him. "Is she on her way?" He asks the man that just kicked the hell out of Tristan and he nods.

"Yeah, she was all pissy about having to do it earlier than we planned but I didn't think this one would actually kill your sister." He says and my eyes widen.

"Oh, she's going to pay for that." Demetri says and I feel like I can't breath. Now that I know where I saw those eyes it makes me sick to think I killed his family, even though I really shouldn't be because he kidnapped me in the first place.

"Don't you think Xavier is going to be pissed at you for hurting her?" The other guy asks and Demetri shrugs

"I don't really care, he should have thought about that before he crossed me." He says, his blue eyes turning icy cold and shivers run up my spine.

"Take these two to the living room, watch them and notify me when she shows up." He says before walking out of the room. We're dragged into the living room and thrown on couched across from each other.

"Stop hurting him!" I shout as the guy from earlier starts punching Tristan.

"Oh, shut up." He sneers, going right back to what he was doing. I jump up to go and drag him of but the other guy grabs me from behind. I swing my head back, against his nose and he lets go of me, holding onto his nose. My foot finds it way between the other man's legs and he groans, falling onto Tristan and I quickly drag him of, kicking him in the stomach for extra measure.

"What the hell is going on in here?" Natalie's voice comes from the entrance of the living room and for a moment I look up in relief before that relief turn to fear and betrayal as Demetri walks up behind her and puts his arm around her waist and instead of pushing him off she leans into his touch.

"Nat, why..." I trail of and watch as her calm face turns into anger.

"Don't be such a whiny bitch. All my life I've been second best to you and for once I have the chance to be on top. For once I don't have to look on how everyone just likes without you trying and you putting up that innocent little act." She says and I can't believe this is the girl I called my best friend.

"I trusted you." I say, feeling sadness and anger bubble up in me and I don't know witch one will win.

"Yeah, that was kind of the point. I was going to ditch you after graduation, you know? That is until Demetri came along and offered me a better deal and it was to good for me to pass up on." She says like she's talking about the weather. "I thought he was joking at first and then you came and blabbered your whole sob story to me and played right into my hands. It was easy after that and then that idiot Gabe fell for me and it was almost too easy. He trusted me so much he wasn't even trying to hide his phone calls from me and he always left his office open and I got everything I needed." She rolls her eyes and I stare at her in shock.

"How could you use us all like that?" I ask her, angry at her for lying to me all this time when all I was doing is try to protect her.

"You made it easy for me too." She says before turning to Demetri. "When are we going to do this? I have to be back by the morning or they're going to start questioning me." She says and I stare at the back of head in anger. I never thought I would look at someone and feel this way but this girl has to die.
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