10. Safe?

I stay in the shower for two hours, just standing below the shower head as it washed away the remaining blood.

"Disgusting, disgusting." I kept repeating in a whisper as I picked at my skin causing it to peel.

I peeled, and peeled until the pink surface began to show causing blood to we put from it.

It burns, it burns like hell when the water tapped on my recently peeled skin.

I had swept the soap on my body at least ten times and I still felt...dirty.
I decide to get out of the shower because I hear Jordan calling me from the living room, if it was up to me I would live in here for the rest of my life.

I put on drag clothing and limp out of the bathroom. I couldn't walk right, for some reason it felt weird.

Was this what happens when you lose your virginity?

It felt like I still had him inside me, I couldn't erase the images they only kept repeating non stop.

I stand five feet away from him hoping he would just say what he had to say. "I need to run an errand, you be a good girl and stay here until I come back." Jordan firmly says pouting at the edges of the ceiling walls. "You see those, they're cameras. So I'll be watching your every move from my phone."

I look up staring at the small black cameras. I could only nod not able to even look at him.

"Good." My brother smiles walking towards me making me step back quickly. "Hmph, seems your still a bit shaky." Jordan grunts walking to the door, exiting the house.

I immediately run to the nearest window looking out of it seeing my brother get into his car and drive off.

I doubt there were any phones in the house, but I had to get out of here and the only way out was to run out.

I waited twenty minutes making sure there was a good amount of distance between Jordan and the house. I enter his room and look through every jacket finding quarters, immediately I take them and run downstairs exiting the house.

I didn't know where I was, but I knew if I retraced the car's steps I could get back to town. I keep myself on the side of the road, jogging on the dirt as the trees around me made it harder for drivers to see me.

I could only run for thirty minutes and after that I had to continue to walk. Finding a pay phone as my top priority, then I could call the detective.

It takes an hour and thirty minutes to find a row of pay phones. I rush towards one spotting a gas station feet away from the phones.

I desperately put in the quarters dialing the number from the card the detective had given me.

"This is detective Gordan." I heard the voice of hope answer.

"I-it's me, Ariel." I begin to panic and look around me in hopes my brother wouldn't appear before me .

"Ariel? Where are you? We've been looking for you. The landlord told us you and your brother moved.

"Detective, please listen to me! I'm in danger! I need you to come pick me up!" I whimper.

"Where are you?" Logan questions in worry.

"Right out of town. I'm close to a gas station by the pay phones." I squeeze the handle of the phone tightly. "Please hurry, I don't know when he'll come back." Whispering into the phone I feel a grip on my shoulder.

I immediately scream as I am swayed around in a circle. "What the hell are you doing here?" The familiar voice questions in a demanding manner.

My eyes widen at my savior. "Detective Ross!" I cry immediately embracing him into a hug.

"Ms. Reed." Philip widens his eyes in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"You have to help me detective! I'm in danger!" I grip onto his police jacket.

"Get in the car." Philip points at the police car that was parked in front of the gas pump.

I nod without question, running into the car thinking that I was at ease again. I buckle on my seat belt and wait for detective Ross to enter the car.

Philip pays for the gas and enters the car, he turns on the engine heading back into town. "Start from the beginning." He demands taking his phone out from his jacket pocket.

"My brother, he's the one that kidnapped me!" I finally shout letting out all my frustration and pain out.

"What?" Ross raises an eyebrow. "Are you okay Ms. Reed?"

"I'm fine! I know what I'm saying!" I shout in panic.

"Alright, just calm down. I'm taking you to the station." He continues to drive with a phone at hand. "Logan, I have Ms. Reed with me, we're going into the station." Philip says putting the call in speaker mode.

"Copy." I hear detective Gordon say in a raspy voice. The call ends and we are both left  with utter silence.

AT THE STATION

Philip and I enter the police station, Logan was by the front door waiting for us. "We've been looking everywhere for you, your brother is now under suspicion." Logan begins to observe me from head to toe.

"Let's take her into the interrogation room." Philip pats him on the shoulder walking past him.

Logan nods leading me the way into the room. I sit on the wooden chair, many mirrors were around me, but I knew they could see me from the other side.

"Ariel, what happened after you came out of the hospital?" Logan calmly questions putting his folded hands on the desk.

"My brother picked me up and we got into a car, he drove. He told me that he doesn't live in the apartment anymore, that we moved into a house out of town." I begin to feel a choking sensation in my throat, it was hard to say the words. It hurt me every time I thought back to it.

"What happened next?" Logan snaps me out of my trance. My eyes begin to water from the images surrounding my head.

"We enter the woods, that's where the house is. He tells me that this is our home now, h-he reconstructed the whole house to look exactly like our old one from when.... From when my parents were still alive." I sniffle looking down at my lap.

"What did he do to you, Ms. Reed? You look terrified." He waits for my response.

"Back when you found me at the docks, I was trying to escape and that's when I found my brother chasing after me." My eyes stare at the detective, but my eyes were fixed on nothing.

"He's working for them." I heavily say trying to hold back the tears. "All this time, he's been working for them! He's the one that kidnapped me, the one who enslaved me! The one...." I pause putting both my elbows on the desk beginning to shake. "The one w-who raped me!" I immediately begin to cry and scream, slamming my hands on the desk in rage.

Logan doesn't say a word, he only stands up and leaves the room letting me have time to compose myself.

Detective Gordon walks into the back room looking at Philip. "I want a lead on Jordan Reed." He points at his partner in a frown.

"Ill check out the perimeter from where I found her." Philip nods walking out of the room.

"You son of a bitch." Logan whispers to himself.

I lay my head on the desk in tiresome. The door makes a squeaky sound letting me know he was back. "You're going to have to testify against your brother." Logan firmly says.

"I will do it." I wipe my wet face off with my shirt.

"I'll put you under witness protection." Logan begins to write on a sheet of paper.

"Detective, I want you to protect me! I don't want to be alone." I murmur at my sudden plead. "What if he comes back to get me?"

"We have highly qualified men to protect you against any danger." Logan tries to reassure me, but I felt slightly uncomfortable being with so many strange men surrounding me.

"Detective, I don't want that." I shake my head. "These men, I don't even know their names. They're strangers and that makes me uncomfortable. Please, just put me under your protection." I beg hoping he would change his mind.

Logan sighs heavily. "Fine, I understand what you have been through." He stops writing on the sheet. "I'll be right back, I have to file these papers." With that said he leaves the room again.

I don't want to go back there, I don't, I don't, I don't....

"Boss, she's gone." Jordan sighs heavily holding the phone up to his ear.

"You made this mess, now fix it. I don't care how, but I want her alive or did your forget our plan?" His boss speaks in a frustrated tone.

"Yes father, I remember..." Jordan whispers hearing the other line end.

I'll make you proud, father.

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