Chapter 89
Landon’s POV
We were all crying and huddled together like chicken in a corner of the store room.
It had a foul smell and I could tell that it was from us because we had peed on ourselves in fear. Fear that something was about to happen to us and no one would come to our rescue.
I didn’t know why Travis was doing this to us. We had not done anything to him. He was the only friend we had and I had even considered him to be a father to us.
For him to toss us inside this place and keep us locked away from the outside world meant there was something he was planning to do to us.
We were still children. Our bones had not yet matured. What could we do against a big strong giant like him? He would beat us to death if we dared oppose him.
He had not come to check on us after he had shouted at us and stormed off in anger. It was already a nightmare as we missed our mother and we wanted to go home.
We had no phone to call her and she didn’t know where we were. I wanted to go home.
I looked at Layla laying on my lap and her face had swollen from crying so much. Luca was up kicking the wall from time to time, hoping it would budge and give way for us to escape.
“What are you doing?” I asked him.
“Trying to escape?” He said with determination as he pushed against the wall.
“You can’t do that, you’ll injure yourself. Stop!”
“No!” He yelled. “I can punch it.”
And that was what he did. He punched it and I heard a crack as he fell to the ground crying.
I took his hand to see it swollen and I could only tell him that his plan was stupid.
He was trying to do a move he had found in the justice league where superboy had broken through a prison.
“You are not superboy,” I sighed. “You are Luca. I think you should know the difference.”
“I miss mummy,” Layla said with a sniff. We all did. We all knew she was the only one who could actually save us from this mess. She was the one who could put Travis in his place.
What had happened between them? Why was he punishing us for something we had no idea about? He had tricked us into going to Disney world with him only to find out there was no Disney world. It was all a trap.
We had been taken away from the comfort of our home to be left here. This was a trap and we had fallen into it. He had told us to not tell mummy and because we believed that we would not come to harm we had told him.
That was something that would not happen again if I ever got out of this place. I would tell my mummy everything and she would know how to handle people who tell me to keep quiet about things.
Now we knew how much Travis hated us. We could not believe he had acted so nice to us just to have us kept in this prison.
We had to find a way to get out of here or we would be in big trouble.
All of a sudden the door opened as we all huddled close to each other staring at the door with our big eyes in fear.
Travis walked in with a bag which he tossed towards us.
I was tired of being in this hellhole, I was going to challenge him. I would get our freedom back. Luca had tried punching the walls but it had not worked, maybe taking some sense into him would work.
I stood up and ran to him.
“What do you think you’re doing?!” I yelled. He turned to look at me with shock. “I want to go home to mum! We all want to go home to mum!”
“Get back to the floor, child.”
“My name is…” before I could finish that statement, I felt a sharp pain on my cheek before seeing a bright light with the room going dark.
I fell hard on my sides, fear gripping my entire system as I opened my eyes and immediately found my way to my siblings.
I turned to them, my swollen eye closing up due to the pain as it welled up with tears.
We all screamed for help at the top of our lungs as the man brought out a gun and aimed it at us.Exclusive content from NôvelDrama.Org.
“Now if you don’t shut up I’ll have no choice but to put one in you,” he threatened as we all stopped squirming. “You see, the game is getting interesting. Your bitch of a mother has gone to your father to find you.
“Now the news is that you three have already been outed as the president’s children. That means there is a wide manhunt for me and a search party for you. All I need to do is keep you all hidden well and keep you all quiet for my plans to work.
“But even if you were to shout at the top of your lungs no one would hear you.”
The man paced around the room waving his gun around. It scared me and I wished I was strong and fast enough to tackle him but I was not. He would see me coming from a mile away and even if I got to him he could kill me by choking me. He was that strong.
“My plan is not working and if it comes down to it I’ll have to kill the three of you one after the other sending pieces of your body to Zendaya until I get what I want.”
That was a cruel thing for him to say and he meant it. He was not bluffing.