Taken

Chapter 19

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Chapter 19
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Katie's P.O.V

I closed my eyes not wanting to face the one who opened the closet and my body shook with fear.

"Hello, Katie." It was Noah's voice and he reached out and stroked my face. I slowly opened my eyes and I felt a bit relieved because he didn't seem as bad as the other two.

"Found her!" Noah suddenly yelled and my heart sunk as I thought of the others coming here. I quickly slid out of the closet but Noah caught me by my waist with a tight grip.

"Please Noah, you don't have to be like them." I say but he just sighs and shakes his head.

"Oh sweetheart you wish that the other two had found you, I have yet to show my true self." He says and I give him a puzzling look. Just then Chris and Jackson walk into the room and neither of them looks happy.

"The deal is off." Chris announces and Noah's expression turns to anger.

"What do you mean it's off? Is it because I won?" Noah's voice came out deep and angry and I tensed up as his grip on me tightened.

"Nah man, I just changed my mind." Chris says.

"Everything just always has to go your way, doesn't it? Well, you know what I'm sick and tired of it." Noah says before punching Chris right across the jaw. I quickly take this opportunity to slip out of Noah's grip and run past them as they broke out into a fight. I ran towards the front door and just as I did the door slammed open and I fell back as it hit me. I looked up to see Hunter walking in with a puzzled look as he saw me on the floor and my heart sunk as I realized that he had just seen me trying to escape. Hunter walks over to me and picks me up by my hair.

"What do you think you were doing?" He asks angrily.

" I-I promise I wasn't trying to escape. I was just trying to get away from them." I say hoping it would help, but he just drags me by my hair into the living room.

"Enough!" Hunter shouts and they finally stop."I can't leave you three alone for more than five minutes. Take a seat we have a lot to discuss. Katie comes with me." Hunter says and I follow him upstairs.

"You look like a mess, I need you to get cleaned up." Hunter says and hands me some clothes and a towel. "You have twenty minutes." He tells me before leaving to go downstairs.

I enter the washroom and gasped as I looked into the mirror. I couldn't even recognize myself. My hair was matted and frizzy, I had large bags under my eyes, my lips were chapped, my eyes were bloodshot red, and I was so skinny. I wasn't myself anymore and a tear slid down my cheek as I stared at the scar that Aiden had given me when he cut my cheek with a knife. I sighed and stepped into the shower, thinking about how this whole experience has changed me mentally and physically.

The shower was nice over my body, it had been a while since I got to do this. Once I was done I got out of the shower and dried myself off. I then put on the clothes hunter had left me which was a plain black t-shirt, skinny jeans and a pair of running shoes. After that I brushed my hair and looked in the mirror again, my face looked a little brighter and my hair looked much better. I wasn't sure how long I had been but I knew it was more than twenty minutes.

I opened the bathroom door and jumped a but once I saw Jackson sitting against the wall outside the door, taking a long sip of vodka. An empty bottle of alcohol was already laying next to him.