Chapter Thirty

“I didn’t know you and Damian got back together” Sally said as they headed down the stairs
“I don’t know if you call that getting back together. We didn’t. He just showed up in my room. I guess he was looking for comfort or something” she said
“And you let him sleep in your bed? C’mon. Maybe you should stop fighting it and just make up and get married or something” Sally said
“I would add that to my bucket list when I get this issue over with. I just want to get Phillip out of the way once and for all” she said to Sally

Sally lead her to the dungeon and they found it empty. Anna looked at her. Phillip had escaped. Anna sped to the front of the house and circled the house countless times but there was no trace of him. She screamed in frustration


SIX HOURS EARLIER


After he threw him in the dungeon, he went back up to try to reason with Annabelle but it was pointless. She wasn’t being reasonable. All she wanted to do was to kill Phillip and Damian couldn’t allow him do that, not without an explanation from his father. He needed to know why his father was the way he was and what was the story behind his behaviors but Anna didn’t care about what Damian wanted to know. She wanted Phillip gone and Damian knew that it was only a matter of time before Anna killed his father since he was just in their basement.
Damian knew he needed to act fast but he wasn’t ready to make a decision he was going to regret. All he knew was that he needed to get his father out of the house before Anna decided to kill him. He decided to let his father go. He went to the dungeon and his father saw him

“What? Have you come here to gloat?” his father asked
“There is nothing to gloat about! You are a disgrace to me, to my mother, to the house hold and to every body else
that has an idea of who you are and why you exist. I want to know why you are the way you are. I need to know the story because something is not just adding up with all these and I need to solve this problem” Damian said to him
“And what makes you think that I would tell you anything or even talk to you?” Phillip asked him

Damian scoffed and shook his head. His father has always been proud and full of arrogance. He knew he would have to have him in a tight corner and he did. He was going to trust his father and make a deal with him, hopefully, his father would keep the end of his bargain. Damian’s senses screamed in disagreement because a part of him knew that he couldn’t trust his father but he was willing to risk it.

“It is so funny that you think you have a choice. You don’t have a choice here! I am now giving you a choice. If I leave here, Anna would come down here and trust me, she is not coming to talk to you!”
“I am not scared of your little girlfriend!” he said
“You should be because I am and if I am, you really should be” Damian said
“I am not moved!” Phillip said
“I don’t need you to be moved. I need you to be alive to tell me what I need to know. I get you out of here and I find a way to reach you so we can talk. Deal or not?” Damian asked his father
“Your girlfriend would hate you if she finds out that you are letting me go!” Phillip said with scorn
“I would take care of that. My girlfriend is none of your business. I should hate you for even trying to force yourself on her and what the hell were you thinking? She is not even twenty yet! You had no right whatsoever to even make a move on my woman!” he screamed at him
“With the way you are going, you would wake up the entire house. This issue is older than you are and I don’t expect you to understand any of it!” Phillip said
“I don’t want to understand it! I just want you to stay away from her. I am not going to warn you again. The next time you make a move on Annabelle, it would be the last time you ever do that because I would personally kill you before she does. I would not let you take my woman from me. You took mom from somebody and I know that story. I wouldn’t let that mistake repeat itself twice!” Damian said
“I would do what I want to do! You have no right to stop me!” Phillip said
“Rot in hell then!” Damian yelled at him and he turned to leave
“Alright! Wait! I would stay away from her if that is what you want! I would stay clear of her, just get me out here!” he yelled at him

Damian smiled and he sped off with his father and dropped him at the outskirts of the town. He nodded at his father and he sped back to the house. He was going to enter his room and head straight to bed but he changed his mind. He decided to check on Anna before he headed to bed. He dropped by her room and found her in bed but he could tell that she was still awake. He slipped under her duvet and kissed her neck and she didn’t send him away which was a good thing. He hoped that things would be better between them from now on but he wasn’t so sure. He just wanted her to be okay and this quest made him question the action he has just taken. Was he right to have let his father go? Was he to blame for her hurt? A lot of questions ran through his mind and he had no answer to any. He woke up to the house in chaos. He looked at his side and saw that Anna was out of bed. That was weird. He could hear her ranting in the living room so he headed down to see what was going on

“Can somebody tell me why there is so much noise in this hose this morning?” Damian said
“Apparently, your father found his way out of his cage and now he is no where to be found” Anna said
“I don’t understand. How did he even get out?” Damian’s mother asked
“Why not ask the person who put him there in the first place?” Sally asked
“What do you mean?” Damian asked
“C’mon, bro. You put him in there. You might as well have been the one that let him out of his prison. I mean, you want answers to your question and then you love your father so much that you couldn’t let him stay where Annabelle was because you knew she was going to act out and take his life” Sally said
“You were going to do that?” Damian asked, turning to Annabelle and looking at her
“I was going to do what was necessary to keep everybody else in my life safe. If I find out that you had something to do with his escape, I will…”
“You would what? C’mon Anna! What would you do? Fight me? Kill me? You might be an hybrid, yes but don’t forget that I am one too. I am stronger than you are and way more experienced than you are. You might be faster but that doesn’t cut it so stop with the threats. If you want to find my father, you need me on your side and not against you and if you want me against you, that is not a bad idea either. A friend of an enemy is an enemy and in this case, I am the son of your enemy. I understand that he killed your father and he killed Caleb but we don’t know if he killed your Mom! Don’t accuse him of an offense he didn’t commit and I am glad that he escaped because I still have questions that need to be answered and I will definitely not get any answers of you kill him!” He said to her
“That is enough Damian!” his mom said
“No, mom! It’s not. She has to hear it from someone. I understand that you’re hurt and angry but you need to calm the hell down and be reasonable. You talk about making an enemy of me, now let me tell you something and I would be very clear about it. If you kill my dad without me talking to him and getting my answers, you wouldn’t have my dad as your only enemy!” he said to her
“Damian! A word? Justin asked

Damian rolled his eyes and followed his best friend. He knew his beat friend was just trying to get him out of the living room so he doesn’t say anything he would regret later on but he already said more than enough