Chapter 30

Chapter 29
He never felt so much anger, he actually wanted to punish her after this new stunt Bree pulled. When he found her and got her safe, he was going to beat her ass until it was a deep shade of pink and learned her lesson.

She went behind his back, again and pretty much ran away from him. That was grounds for a hard, punished spanking, if she hadn't had the history she had, nothing would have stopped him the minute he found her in those stupid woods. He would have sat on the ground if he had to and spanked her so hard she wouldn't have been able to sit for a week.

He took a deep breath to try to calm his nerves, how was he ever going to get her to fully trust him? To not just take off on him, and her know he had her back on everything. He wasn't going to leave, he wanted to help her, there was just something different about her and he couldn't put his finger on it.

Nausea bubbled in Bree; she couldn’t help but feel like everything was a terrible idea. The skin on the back of her neck prickled as if she was being watched.

She spun quickly when it became a stabbing sensation as she spun her foot hit a thick fallen branch causing her to tumble backwards onto her butt. Her gaze darted around as she tried to find what was causing the weird feeling. Why had she left Justin? She should have known better, this was a big mistake.

The trees were too thick to see anything. She let out a breath as she pushed the feeling away quickly and got back to her feet. She continued the trek through the trees as some branches reaching down and scrapping her face. She tried to dodge as many as she could, even at a slow pace it seemed impossible. She didn't remember being scratched at this much when she escaped. Maybe she had just been numb to the feeling while she was filled with the desperate need to escape. Now she was heading right back to where she begged to be free of. She took a hard swallow as she paused for a moment. The other girls deserved to be free too, they at least had family that was desperately trying to find them.

She pushed the self-pity party she was trying to have away and continued to move. Marnie was more important, the other four girls were more important. She just hoped that someone found her in time, or she was indeed dead. The man she now knew as Sal Thompson had gotten to her twice and had tried to end her. She froze again, Thompson? Why did that name sound familiar? She shook her head and continued on her way.

Justin and Ben screeched the car to a halt. Justin couldn't move fast enough, he hurriedly got an ear bud in place and began to load up on a couple of guns and enough ammo to take out an army and enough zip cuffs to bound the same amount of people.

He carefully watched as Ben began to set the feed up for the ear bud and quickly work on hacking into the police feed. Ben's fingers moved like lightning across his keyboard.

“Justin, I’m in!” he pushed a button and began to listen to the feed and his eyes glued to the spot that was stopped. Ben let out a curse, “She was stopped for a minute, but now she’s moving faster.”

“How far out?” Justin demanded, leaning between the two front seats from the back where he had been getting ready.

“Two miles out due north of us, we’re going to get her, Justin, you’ll keep her safe, man.”

Justin narrowed his gaze a little, “I know, I’m just, I just,”

“You love her, Justin, as crazy and stupid as it sounds you are in love with her, she feels the same about you, she might not remember what the feeling is but it’s there and she feels it for you.”

“Then why did she do this?” he demanded quietly, trying to push the anger away.

“She wants you to have Marnie back, just go easy on her, man, you need to focus on getting her back, I’ll keep you updated on anything important.”

Justin gave a curt nod and jumped from the back seat and took off into the woods. He was focused on getting to Bree, but he was also focused on what he was going to do to her the rest of the day once she was in his presence and arms.

“Okay, Justin, you’re finally gaining on her.”

“Well, I’d hope so, I am running.” He huffed out as his gaze darted around himself to make sure no one would surprise him.

Bree picked up the pace as the stabbing in her neck continued. She tripped over another thick branch that had fallen from one of the many high trees surrounding her and went tumbling down a bank. She let out a scream as her whole body was covered in water, again. She sat up quickly, spitting out the mucky water that invaded her mouth. She slowly looked around, at least she was getting closer.

She shivered as she began to get to her feet, just what she wanted though, to be soaking wet while trying to get Marnie and the others, she went to the side of the bank she had to climb to get out of it. So much fun. She dug her fingers into the bank and began to pull herself up, her foot hit a tree root that was in the bank wall, and she slipped falling back into the water again. A louder scream escaped her, this was ridiculous, she got up to try again, she had to make it. The girls were counting on her. Justin was counting on her, Iris was counting on her.

“Justin, we have a problem, Bree screamed, now all the feed and her position are gone, there’s nothing, something happened and it doesn’t sound good, bro.”
Justin let out a whirl of curses and picked up his speed, “Was she still headed in the same direction?”
“Yes, she was, Justin, just be careful.” Ben warned cautiously.
“Roger.” He acknowledged and continued his path to get to Bree. He didn’t understand how the feed could just disappear. Everything had to of been hidden on her.
He let out a groan, unless he was right about his suspicions when all of this first started and the cops were involved and if that was the case, his Bree was in real trouble. That thought sprung him into a faster sprint. A third scream sent him even faster.