Chapter 15

When Emily finally opened her eyes she felt her vision failing her, her head hurt so bad and she didn't know why.

She rose to her feet slowly but felt her body getting heavy than usual as she slumped back to the ground and slammed her head on the floor.

She winced in pain from her head hitting the floor but she didn't notice she was already got a small cut at the side that was already bleeding.

She looked around again this time slowly, it seemed every time her eyes scanned the room she would feel like her brain would explode but nothing was coming to her mind.

She rose to her feet again, this time slowly as she walked into the bathroom calculating each step, at intervals, she leaned on the wall for support so she wouldn't fall.

She stepped into the tub slowly still in her clothes that reeked of something that she couldn't figure out, some chemical. She turned on the shower as the water poured In her head slowly.

What was happening to her?

She leaned into the shower and stared around again with sleepy eyes trying to recollect something, anything.

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"Hmmm," Emily mumbled slowly, she felt something on her neck as she opened her eyes slowly.

Something cold lingered around her as she opened her eyes wider than before staring at Leonard.

"You!" She exclaimed but it came out as a whisper. She cleared her throat and tried again. "You!" but it came out weaker than the first.

What was she doing here? Where was she? How did she get here? Wasn't she inside the bathroom earlier? So many questions but she couldn't answer them. Why couldn't she answer them?

She scanned the room and realized she was in Bella's apartment.

"How are you feeling?" Leonard asked still sitting, he had come back and come directly to check on Emily. She had been asleep inside the water-filled bathtub. He wondered if she was trying to get herself killed.

"Feeling?" Emily mumbled.

He stared at the little cut at the side of her head, he had treated yesterday but she was so knocked out she didn't even feel it.

He rose to his feet and walked up to her, he sat next to her and touched her head. Her temperature had reduced. He kept staring at her as he felt her eyes closing slowly but the stubborn woman was fighting it. She kept trying to keep her eyes open.

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"Are you sure they didn't take my daughter? You are the cause of all this," Rose panicked hitting her husband on the chest as he lay on the couch.

It had been two days since the kidnapped incident, they had all woken up but none of them could remember how they got back to their house.

Riverstone felt pains all over his body and realized he had been beaten but he couldn't remember when, all they all remembered was being in the hospital and their little argument after he told them about his deal with the person he owed.

Rose had gone to report at the police station but because Emily was an adult they told her to wait till after twenty-four hours but her mind wasn't settled. She wondered where her daughter was and if they had done anything to her.

The more she thought about it, the more tears filled her eyes.

"Just calm down, I remember she has this friend Bella or something I will go to their school and find out." Chloe finally spoke, she didn't care about the situation but the way her mother was behaving worried her.

"Yes, yes," Rose sniffed remembering Emily used to sleep over there. Why hadn't it come to her mind that maybe Emily was over there, she had called Mark earlier but Mark said he had not seen her yet. "Let me get dressed."

"Dressed for what? So you can go and embarrass me?" Chloe asked rising to her feet, she had seen the way her mother had nearly scattered the police station because they told them to come back in twenty four hours time. She didn't have time for all this drama.

All this would have been avoided if her mother just left this useless man, she still didn't get how the hell her mother was still here.

What annoyed her the most was when she found out that her mother's family are actually wealthy and her mother had left all those wealthy for this idiot.

She had tried to reach out to most of her cousins to reconnect but they always told her they were busy but she knew better.

No one wanted to associate with them because of their father.

Emily seemed not bothered but Chloe had plans of her own, she wasn't planning on living this life forever. If it meant that she would marry this mafia that her father was owing she would.

"I will go and call you to let you know it she is there." Chloe said going inside to get her handbag, phone and her sunglasses.

She was wearing a tee shirt and a bum shorts , her mother didn't bother to inform her to change into something decent because she knew that would only lead to an argument and Chloe might eventually refuse to go and look for Emily. They could argue about the choice of clothes later on.

Emily was important than this bum short, Rose reminded herself as she watched her daughter walk out of the apartment.