KILL YOU

ADELINE'S POV

"Bad day huh?" Colton's voice is the first thing I hear as soon as I open my eyes. "You know what? I was wrong. Maybe you're just stupid and you'll be dead soon enough."

"Get the fuck out of here!" I say jerking up from bed as I remember what Veronica did to that poor gurl. I was dreaming about her. my face still feels sore from how hard I was slapped but my mind keeps going back to the girl.

"If you keep acting difficult, you'll keep getting drugged and this is not a place where you want to lose your senses. You want to be in the right mind all the damn time! Why can't you just follow simple instructions?" Colton actually looks really angry and I have no idea why. Why does he care so much anyways?

"Where is she?" I ask sitting up in bed, ignoring the headache I have. I stumble but Colton easily catches me and helps me back in bed. I have that feeling again where I can feel all my emotions but my body is too weak to react. Colton is right. If I'm going to survive here, I have to avoid getting that needle plunged into me. I can't get drugged again.

"Where is she?" I ask again as tears leave my eyes.

"Where do you think? Her body is probably buried in a ditch somewhere." Colton answers and I sob at his response. I sob until my head starts banging uncontrollably.

"You're a monster!" I say weakly. "You're all monsters. She was just a girl. She was just a little girl. She didn't deserve that. None of us deserve this. I'm going to kill you all."

"That is how things function here gorgeous. The sooner you come to terms with that, the better for you. I wouldn't get too attached to the other girls if I were you. They do not care about you or each other. They look out for themselves and I suggest you start doing that too. They wouldn't lift a finger for you so don't fucking do it for them." His voice is harder and he almost sounds angry.

I almost laugh at the irony. I'm the one who was raped and brought to a trafficking organization and treated like an object and he's the one who's angry.

"Why didn't she do the same to me?" I ask Colton as I continue sobbing. I was thinking Veronica would put me through the same fate after I spoke back at her but she just drugged me and sent me to my room. I want to know why.

"Veronica has other plans for you. Adrian invested a lot in you. The other girl was just kidnapped and brought here so she's not even important enough to be kept alive." Colton explains. "Plus you heard her. You're the prettiest thing she's seen in a while."

I want to throw up with the way Colton is being so direct about how absolutely evil this place is. I cry even more at the realization that the only reason I'm alive and getting special treatment is because Veronica plans to make a lot of money from my body. I want to throw up and I want to bury myself six feet under and never wake up again.

I miss Dante. Where is Dante? He would know what to do. I hope he's looking for me. I just want to go home.

"Is that why she makes you guard me personally?" I ask.

"No. Veronica has other reasons for torturing me. Besides, she thinks you're dangerous and she doesn't want the other men getting their hands on you. She knows I won't touch you. Like I said, you're a pretty important investment." Colton explains. 

"The other guards touch the girls?" I ask in disbelief. Right now, I'm trying everything I can to forget about the girl who just died and try to gather as much information as I can. If I think about her too much, I don't know if I'll be able to survive another day in this place.

"They're allowed to do as they please to the girls twice a week. To train the girls regularly and remind them that they're just objects." Colton says.

"Oh God…" I exclaim but my voice comes out weaker than I would like. This place is hell. I need to fucking get out of here. I just need to.

"Are you even allowed to tell me all this?" I ask him.

"Maybe I'm bored." He answers with a shrug. I glare at him and then remind myself he hasn't got a heart.

"Veronica knows I won't let you do anything stupid." He elaborates.

"That's a lot of trust she puts in you for someone who's apparently as important to her as I am." I say staying still in my bed. I've realized the drug doesn't affect me that much when I stay immobile.

"She's blackmailing you, isn't she?" I ask Colton the big question.

"Or maybe I'm just doing this because I want to." He answers with an emotionless look on his face. I already analyzed Colton from the day I met him as someone who covers up and deflects his emotions with jokes. These kind of people are difficult to get to but at least, now I know he's being blackmailed with something.

I just need to find out what. I can use Colton to my advantage. I hate him with everything I have. He hurt me and I will never forgive him for it. I want him dead, but maybe he'll be the one to help me get out of here if I use our time together wisely.

"I'm going to get out of this place one day." I tell him weakly.

"Bold assumptions." He says.

"And when I do…" I continue. "I'm going to kill you." I look him straight in the eyes.