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Chapter Forty One

When you read this you'll see I am not all that bad I hope.

I will be editing this once finished, because I really wanted to take my time with it, but I thought I better not leave heads to explode with cliffhangers.

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Josh walked me through the lobby and out the doors to a car that was waiting outside.

Once I was inside the car Josh pulled the seatbelt across my lap and clicked it in then signalled to a driver to go.

“Why are you doing this?”

“Nick is a bad man, who did some very bad things once upon a time”

“I don’t believe you. Nick is a kind and giving man” I replied anxiously

“How noble of you, that’s your downfall you know. Always willing to see the best in people, even when it doesn’t exist”

I looked down at the cable ties on my hands and shook my head. He was right in a way, but not about Nick.

“Where are we going?” I asked softly

“Just some place. You keep quiet and you’ll be fine Sarah. I meant what I said before. I love you. I don’t want to hurt you” Josh replied

“Josh, I…”

“You know, ever since I saw you in the lift I knew you were the one. You looked so innocent and afraid. Then that predator threw himself at you” I looked at josh, he looked angry and disgusted

“It wasn’t quite like that” I replied, perhaps a little too defensively “How did you see?”

Josh laughed a little then leant in

“I was fixing the cameras in there. They’d been on the fritz for a while. I finally got it working and saw you and then him. I knew who you were. I’d never seen you before. I knew you were the girl he’d foolishly asked me to befriend.” Josh smirked and stared out the window “here, have a drink. It’s that wine you like”

Josh put a glass to my lips and while I attempted to avoid any of the liquid going down my throat a lot did. Rather quickly I began to feel an all too familiar type of uncontrolled sleepiness.

When I came too I sat in a dark room, it smelt musty, like I was in a small basement or even a closet. I couldn’t see a head of me, and the only light came from the door way in front of me, but even that was just a dim light. The door opened some time later and I heard josh walk inside. He sat in front of me and placed his phone to my right.

“If everything goes as planned Nick won’t be a problem anymore, and maybe then you’ll see just what we could have” Josh exclaimed as he moved forward and took one of my hands in his.

“I will always love Nick. You are sick Josh, and you need help” I replied, as steadily as I could. Josh ripped his hands from mine and angrily stood up. He cut the cable tie on my right hand and for a minute I tried to fight back, but Josh overpowered me, and pulled my arms behind my back, replacing the cut tie with a new one.

“Wrong answer. Your boyfriend will pay for that” He warned as he walked back to the door. “Keep quiet in here too, or I’ll have to hurt you. You got it?”

“What happened to you josh” I whispered sadly

“This is me Sarah. This is the real me, the josh you knew isn’t real and never was. I’m a strong alpha male just like Nick.”