In Love with a Kidnapper - Episode 23

 

Kim’s scream echoed in the streets as the guy holding her drew the knife closer to her neck. Kim bit his hand, and I could see the blood rising up out of his fingers.
“OW!” the man screamed, dropping the knife. He threw Kim on the ground and quickly picked up the knife again.
“Stop!” I shouted at the same time as somebody else. I quickly realized the voice came from another guy rushing towards Kim . “Back off!”He yelled, shoving the man with the knife to the side. His face was livid; hazel eyes furious under his black hair.
“Blair, what are you doing?!” Keith asked angrily.
“I can’t let you hurt her,” Blair said, glancing down at Kim.
“Since when have you cared about her?” questioned Keith. “Remember – you
stabbed her!”
“You did WHAT?” I shouted.
Blaire’s expression switched from menacing to guilty, then quickly back. “If you harm Kim, I’ll beat the crap out of you,” he threatened. “I don’t want her to get hurt again.”
“Shut up, don’t tell me what to do,” Keith said. “And as for you, Nathan, I wouldn’t talk if I were you, or Kim might find out what really happened these past few years.”
My heart was beating fast

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. Everyone was looking at me. I quickly scanned the area, seeing Jake stuck under a bunch of guys, unconscious… the hazel eyed boy, who apparently stabbed Kim..!? I think his name was … Blair? He stared at me curiously while Keith was smirking down at me. I laid my eyes on Kim. Her expression was pleading for me to help her, and at the same time tell her where I’d been. I stared back at her, trying to say I couldn’t reveal anything yet.
Keith saw the look I was giving her. “So, you don’t want to tell Kim about Trisha then, huh?”
Kim’s eyes widened. “Trisha? Who’s that?”
“What does Trisha have to do with anything with this?” Blair asked with confusion.
“Ah~ this is getting too dramatic. Right …Nathan?” Keith eyes glanced from Kim to me. He then smiled. What was his motive to all this? And why the hell is Keith here? And with Kim out of all things?! He should have been there after what he did to-
“Hey!” called a voice from the park entrance. We all looked over to see a very old man on a cane standing, looking at the whole mess in front of him. “What are you kids doing? Get outta here, or I’ll call the cops!” he yelled, shaking his cane at us.
Keith raised an eyebrow at him, the old man sighed. “Whippersnappers and their shenanigans nowadays…” he said to himself then turned to walk away.
He hobbled away slowly… VERY slowly… 20 seconds later and he walked about a metre.
“Jeez, I could walk faster than that if both my legs were broken…” Blair mumbled. He helped Kim up and was suddenly punched in the face.
“WHAT THE HELL?!” Blair yelled from the ground. I looked up and saw Keith standing over him.
“Language!” shouted another voice. The old man stood behind Blair and hit him once with the cane.
“How the hell did you get here so fast? It took you an hour to take a full step!” Blain shouted, frustrated. But the man was already walking away again, a little faster than before.
“Let’s go Kim,” Keith said, pulling Kim with him out the park entrance. “Blair, get rid of those two,” he ordered without looking back.
“No!”Kim screamed. “Please, I’ll do whatever you say! Don’t hurt them!” she begged.
“Let’s go!” Keith dragged Kim out of the park.
The last thing I saw before being surrounded by the men in tuxedos was Kim’s face looking back at me, filled with tears. Then everything went black.
The next thing I was expecting was to be chained to a wall and sitting on a cold hard floor in some prison room. But, when I woke up with the most horrible headache ever, I found myself on a soft bed with a moist towel on my forehead and a can of ice on the bedside. I looked around the room. It wasn’t a prison like I had imagined no manacles or shackles. Instead, it was a decent apartment room. Beside me was Jake in the same bed as me. He was sleeping casually with bandages on his face and small purple bruises hidden under his purple shirt. Wait… purple? I could have sworn he wore a navy shirt… I looked at myself; I wasn’t wearing what I had worn when I was at the park. Instead of the yellow shirt I had worn, it was now green.
“Oh you’re awake,” A yawn came from my other side. It was Blair sitting on a chair. He looked as if he slept on that chair for days. He uncomfortably stretched in an awkward position. I fidgeted on the bed as he got up and walked towards me.
“Don’t worry,” he said in a relaxed voice when he noticed me taking a fighting stance. “I’m on your side Nathan.”
“I didn’t ask for you to join my side,” I spoke coldly, “and what’s this I hear about you stabbing Kim? How can I trust you after hearing that?!”
“Because we have a lot in common more than you think. And Jake never told you about me? Nor did Kim? Gosh I feel so ignored,” He sighed. I don’t know about you, but if I got stabbed I would try to not remember it.
“No they did not, and I see nothing in common between us; looks, personality and I definitely didn’t hurt Kim… physically that is,”
“Could you please stop bringing that up? I feel bad enough for scarring Kim with my knife at the forest on that tragic day. I had the knife to protect myself from Keith, not to harm her. But the moment she saw me again and that knife she freaked and ran off, and that caused Keith to go insane and use that recording earlier than I had expected.”
“Recording? What recording?”
“The one he’s using to blackmail Kim.”
Blair’s words rang in my head, making me have a flash back at what Kim had said that changed my mind to leave the scene.
“I only agreed to this because of what you have!”
“Then… what she said back there made sense, the reason she’s letting him touch her… kiss her is because of that stupid recording?!”
“That stupid recording… has everything from the moment she was kidnapped to her father trying to kill her and until she ended up in the hospital from drug overdoses,” Blair glared at me. “And I thought I needed help,”
“Shut up,”
“So basically, she’s protecting not only her father but you Nathan. I think you should show her some gratitude and give her answers. Three years and she still loves you and wants to protect you even though she’s going to marry some psychopathic man,” a familiar voice said beside me. It was Jake. His arms were crossed behind his head and he casually laid back as he eavesdropped on our conversation. It wasn’t until now that I realized I was unconscious and sleeping beside Jake for god knows how many days. Not to mention that Blair changed us. I shook at the thought. It wasn’t important.
Jake sat up and leaned on the wall. He looked like he had barely any strength to move at all. “I can never understand girls,” He sighed. He glared at Blair with a most hateful look. “But what I can never understand is you Blair. What the fuck are you doing here? I don’t give a damn that you saved our lives, I’m never forgiving you. If you weren’t so drunk that day and Kim… if I wasn’t there…to save her … but still she got that scar…” Jake clenched his head. I could see how angry he was but tried to keep it in. Blair stayed silent but his face was easily readable. Obviously he was guilty and he felt it completely.
“Yeah… I know. I don’t expect any forgiveness for what I had done to her.” Blair whispered. I raised my hand as if I was in a classroom.
“Um could someone explain to me what you guys are talking about? And who the hell are you?” I looked towards Blair. I’ve never seen him in my life but it seems as if he knows Jake and Kim very well. And with Keith giving orders to the guards and not harming Blair… it means that Blair is something towards Keith. Which brought some questions to mind; Is it really safe to be here, regardless of him saving our lives and not really torturing us?
After fifteen minutes of explanations of what Blair had done to Kim to me beating the crap out of Blair and then into Blair trying to explain what Keith motive and what he is to Blair I sat down quietly like a ‘good’ boy.
“So what exactly is Keith’s motive? What’s with this recording, the blackmailing, and the beatings? All for what?” I asked.
“That’s-”
“BLAIR!” A voice echoed in the room. It sounded like a women’s and it was far too familiar.
“Shit,” Blair cursed. “Nathan, your fiancé is back…”
Tbc