Before fucking me senseless until our muffled groans of passion devolved into orgasms that marked us as each other’s.
Forever.
15
“Where were you two last night?” Rob asked as Michael and I walked inside the cottage in the morning after having fallen asleep on the mountain.
Fortunately, since it was almost spring, the blankets and body heat had been enough to keep us from freezing to death.
“From the looks of them,” Adam smirked. “I’d say they were enjoying nature.”
“Hey, you guys want to help me go cut some more wood for the fire?” Rob asked.
“Sure,” Adam said. “I’m game.”
“I’ll come too,” Michael offered. “We can carry more back if all three of us go. Lisette will you be okay here for a little bit by yourself?”
“You could always come with us,” Rob said.
“No thanks,” I said. “I’m going to take a hot shower and have some coffee. I feel a little bit like that storybook princess in the cabin in the woods with my three men,” I teased.
“Just don’t open the door to any wicked queens while we’re gone,” Adam retorted playfully.
“I wouldn’t think of it,” I said with a laugh.
The guys left to go get firewood and I locked up behind them. Then I went to take a nice, long hot shower which felt extraordinarily luxurious after having spent a cold night outside in the mountain air. When I finished the shower, I grabbed a cup of coffee and went into the garden.
The little garden was sitting snuggly against the backside of the cottage and had a curated selection of plants that looked like they were just starting to bud and blossom. I sipped my hot coffee and bent down to touch some of the little leaves with my fingertips. This was heaven, if there ever was one. Freedom from all of the past fear and anguish, peace and beauty.
I wished that my mom and Julian could have been here to see it with me.
“You would have loved it here,” I said quietly aloud in the air to them.
“I already do.”
The sheer dread that David’s voice filled me with made me drop my coffee cup into the garden. I backed away from him until my back pressed against the wall of the cottage.
“Hello Lisette,” he said as he crept slowly closer to me. “Miss me?”
He looked crazed and angry and completely disheveled as if he had been sleeping in his car.
“What are you doing here?” I managed to get out in a petrified whisper. “How did you find us?”
David waved his hands around in the air pompously. “Eh, you know, where there’s a need there’s a plan, or however that saying goes.”
“You need to leave,” I said as I tried to summon what little courage I had left. “They’ll be back soon.”
He snickered. “Who? Your boyfriends? I don’t care about them. I am curious though, why is it that you always seem to have three? If I killed off another one, would you find a replacement for him as well?”
I felt the heat of anger rise in my chest which helped to push out the fear.
“You know, I really do blame you,” he said. “You have ruined me. I’ve lost everything—the school, my business, all of my money and fortune. I have nothing now. Nothing except for you, that is… my dear sister. That’s why I came back for you. You’re all I have left.”
“I’m not your sister,” I said.
“Oh, right, my bad. I meant to say half-sister. Better?”
I heard the front door to the cabin open and close. David heard it too and pulled a knife out of his pocket and pressed it to my neck while I was cornered against the side of the house.
“Lisette?” Michael’s voice called as he walked out through the open back door and into the garden.
He froze when he saw David with the knife at my throat.
Adam and Rob came out behind him and Michael put his hand up to stop them from coming any closer or doing anything that would cause David to react and hurt me.
“Lovely to see you all again,” David said with a taunting grin at the guys.
“Let her go,” Adam commanded at him.
I saw Rob reach for his gun, but I shook my head quickly.
“No,” I said as calmly as I could. “Don’t do anything, please. Just stay still.”
“Good girl,” David chastised.
I want to kill him myself.
