escaped → lashton {sequel to captivated} ✓

twenty-seven

Luke's POV

The door then shot the rest of the way open, Detective McCall stood with a gun trained on Bates (His rank is wrong for this but it doesn't matter for this purpose). "Let the boy go, Bates." The Detective spoke, almost threateningly.

"He's mine." Bates got possessive and pressed me into him more, I whimpered as the knife cut my skin.

"Come on, it's over, you can't get out of this so why don't you let it go a lot smoother by dropping the knife and walking away from Luke."

"No, how about you drop the gun and let me go or I'll kill Lukey here."

"Now, why would you do that?" Detective McCall asked.

"If I can't have him then no one can." Bates growled before managing to pull me even closer to him, he pressed his lips to my temple.

"Let the boy go, you have nowhere to go from this because I have officers outside waiting for you and if they have to take you in a body bag then so be it." Detective McCall threatened.

"You are not taking him from me." Bates almost yelled but he dropped the knife from my neck, it was now down by his leg and I felt like I could breath. Detective McCall then tried to move towards us but the knife was then back at my neck.

"If you don't back down then I will have to shoot you, so why not just hand yourself over?"

"Luke is mine!" Bates shouted and I whimpered again, letting some tears fall. "You can't take him from me but I can't let Ashton have him." He growled before pressing another kiss to my temple and then whispering, "I love you."

Bates then moved to try and cut my throat and I panicked because I thought that that was it but then the gunshot sounded.

The knife around my throat fell and Bates' hold on me left, I fell onto the bed as Bates screamed in agony. A medic immediately rushed into the room to tend to Bates' now injured leg as Detective McCall rushed over to me.

He pulled the tape from my lips before untying my ankles and wrists, the tears were still rapidly flowing down my cheeks but the detective helped me stand up and helped me walk out of the room.

"We've got Ashton and your parents outside, ok? Everything will be alright now." The detective led me outside and I did try to prepare myself for seeing Ashton and my parents again, I was excited but I knew they'd be frantic.

"We'll get you a medic as well, I see you have some injuries and it's best that we treat those the best we can." The detective smiled at me before he stopped at the door, "I'm glad to have found you and I'm glad we caught Bates but I want to say now that I will need to question you on events. Don't worry though, it'll be fine.

"Thank you." I said quietly and the detective nodded before pushing the door open, I squinted at the light because I hadn't been outside in a week but when my eyes adjusted the first thing I saw was Ashton. He was looking right at me and I felt a little lost for words.

He didn't waste any time in literally running over to me, he picked me up in a tight hug. Setting me down, he placed his hands on my cheeks and pressed his forehead to mine. "God, I missed you. I missed you so fucking much." He breathed out before kissing me.

Ashton then pulled me in for another tight hug. "I love you." He managed to get out before he started crying but he wiped my tears away, avoiding my now black eye.

"Luke." I heard my voice being spoken and I looked up from Ashton to see my parents who I immediately walked over to and let them embrace me. "We missed you so much." My dad whispered to me and I leaned into him, letting him comfort me.

"Are you ok, honey?" My mum asked and I did my best to smile as I nodded. She kissed my forehead and stroked some of my hair back. "I'm so happy you're ok, love, your brothers can't wait to see you."

I smiled at her words before Ashton walked over to me and kissed my temple, "Bates is getting taken to hospital before being taken back to prison. Detective McCall says his sentence will now be altered because of his escape and obviously, him kidnapping you." Ashton explained to the 3 of us and I just nodded my head.

"Are we allowed to take Luke home?" My dad asked and Ashton nodded.

"We just have to go in the police car but McCall said he'd take us home." Ashton then said and I glanced at the police car where I spotted a boy.

"Who's that?" I asked, obviously not knowing who the boy was.

"That's Connor, he's the one who helped us find you." Ashton said and I bit my lip, feeling the gratitude for the boy.

"I should go thank him." I said and my parents and Ashton nodded.

"I think we should all thank him." My dad commented. "We owe him a lot for helping us find you and I don't think we can repay him for what he's done for us." He then said and looked at me. And for some reason, I felt guilty.

My family and Ashton had been worried about me and I felt guilty about that even though it wasn't my fault.

"I'm sorry." I said quietly and all 3 of them turned to me with sad looks on their faces.

"Don't apologise for Bates." Ashton said before taking my hand. "He doesn't deserve for you to do that."

Sighing, I leaned into Ashton before saying, "I love you, Ash."

He pressed a kiss to the top of my head, "I love you too. Now, let's get you home."

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A/N: Ok, I don't like this much but I would like to know what you guys think so please vote and comment. I'd really appreciate it.

Also, thank you for the 100k reads on Captivated, I know you guys obviously read it so thank you for that x