NO ONE IS COMING

ADELINE'S POV

Veronica announces through the speakers that the game is over and Della, Silver and I slip out of her rom to assemble again in front of her. I don't even know what happened out here while we were in Veronica's room but as we walk out of her room and down the stairs, the gloomy and quiet allure the building has is enough to tell me what those girls went through.

As we walk back into the assembly room, I am stopped in my tracks just by the sight of the girls. Their clothes are torn, some of them are fully naked, they have mascara running down their cheeks from how hard they were probably shouting and crying.

Some of them don't even look like they were crying, they look like they are just tired of fighting. I wish I could do something. I wish someone would give me a gun so I would shoot Veronica and every man in this room along with her. I hate her. I hate this place.

Veronica walks towards the three of us with a frown on her face. "Where were you three?" She questions.

"We hid in your room on the second floor." I answer, deciding to be the one to talk responsibility. "I picked your lock." I should have probably lied to her and told her we hid somewhere else. That way she would think the guards just didn't look well enough. But I want her to know that I am not afraid of her. I want her to know where we hid. It's a bold and stupid move, but it's not enough reason for her to kill us.

Her eyes glow with annoyance and hatred. She looks like she could eat me alive and there would be nothing I could do about it. Before she raises her hand to slap me, my tongue moves again.

"You specified that we had the entire building to ourselves and I didn't know it was your room before entering." I defend. She looks like she wants to start beating me up here and now but she knows that what I did was valid. She didn't give us any restrictions as to where we could hide.

Perhaps she's scared that we went through her things, but we're not that stupid. Besides, I doubt there was anything in her room that could have helped me. I know everything I need to.

"You think you're so smart huh? You will not be so lucky next time, you fool." She snarls. The three of us head in line, trying the best we can to not look into the other girls' eyes. It seems unfair that we were able to escape what they endured. I can see the resentment in their eyes, I can feel it shooting straight at us.

They're asking themselves, 'why me?'. They are wondering why it happened to them and not us too, and those type of questions build up resentment and poison their hearts with something that is not even true. It makes them think we are their enemies.

"Your training is almost complete, but there is just one slight problem…" Veronica says. "You all still fucking crying like a bunch of stupid babies!" Her voice echoes in the room, causing some of the girls to flinch backwards.

"Do you all think the men who come here want crybabies in bed with them?" She circles us.

"They want people they can have fun with. They want obedient girls, not people who will give them a hard time. So, the next lesson will be how to get rid of those pathetic tears. How to moan and make pleasurable sounds that will benefit your masters. Those of you who will not be able to stop crying know what is coming for them."

"Now, all of you go back to your rooms and clean yourselves up!" She orders.

"You three!" She says pointing to Della, Silver and I. "Come with me."

We look to each other with fear and I start asking myself a million questions. Is she going to punish us in private? Is she going to take us to a dark room and kill us for trespassing? Is she going to have Rock teach us a lesson for picking her lock?

I suddenly don't have the confidence I did a while ago and the fear, it is eating away at my soul. We follow her silently up the flight of stairs to the second floor until she leads us to her room. There are guards behind us as we walk to her room and I have this awful feeling that she's going to make them do terrible things to us.

I'm ready to fight and I put my hand up in fists as we enter her room, but all she does I grab a gun and point it directly at us. Silver and Della both gasp but I just stand my ground and stare at her. She's not going to kill us.

"What did you touch?" She asks.

"Nothing." I say.

"If I find out you're lying…"

"We didn't touch a thing." I repeat, cutting her off. She makes the guards point guns at us and then proceeds to check around her room for any sign of us messing with her stuff. When she's satisfied she faces me again and slaps me straight across the face.

My head flips to the side, a headache starts pumping in my head and I feel my eyes sting with tears.

"Take the other two girls out of here." The guards do as they're told and I'm left alone on the room with Veronica. She beings a chair behind me and pushes me on it. I sit and look up at her with fear in my eyes even as I try as hard as I can to appear courageous. She laughs as she circles me.

"Adrian didn't tell me you would be so difficult." She says. At the mention of Adrian's name, the memories of what he did to me start coming back. I struggle to push them away.

"That boyfriend of yours too…" she grabs my full attention. "Dante…He's been such a huge pain in the ass for so many years. We've been trying to catch the person that has been murdering our men for so long but we couldn't. But now, we finally have a hold on him. Who would have thought that the person we were looking for would be you boyfriend? Such a small world, isn't it?" She chuckles in an evil manner.

"We have his girlfriend that he would do anything to get back. He would even go as far as to kidnap Adrian…"

"What?" My voice comes out weaker and softer than I thought it would. All what Veronica is saying is only confirming to me what Colton said. Everything I knew about Dante was a lie. I want to dig a hole so deep and bury myself in it forever.

"You didn't know, did you?" She tilts her head at me as she speaks. "That the person you were dating is a cold-blooded murderer."

My emotions are going on a rampage. I hate Dante right now for lying to me. I hate the fact that he might have known how dangerous Adrian was all along but still let me get involved with him without saying a word. I hate Dante for lying to me but what I cannot hate him for, is killing anyone involved in this organization.

I'm so confused. Everything Colton and Veronica are telling me are doing nothing to answer the questions I have about Dante. Only he can answer them. Only he can make me understand.

"Why are you telling me all this?" I ask her, not showing her the weakness that she wants to see. I will not give her the satisfaction of seeing that her words are getting to me.

"Because I want you to understand that Dante and Liam will not be able to save you?" At the mention of Liam's name, all sense of civility flies out the window.

"Don't you dare…" I attempt to stand up but Veronica places her hand on my shoulders and forces me back down on the chair.

"Oh I already have. We have a special guest coming tonight. A very special friend of Liam's. You might know her." She taunts me. I furrow my brows and think about who she's talking about and then my eyes widen in shock.

"Naomi…" I whisper, tears rolling down my cheeks. my body gives up on me. I'm weak at the thought of how Liam and Naomi must be feeling right now. "What did you do?"

"I kidnapped her, of course. To teach that lawyer friend of yours a lesson. He keeps meddling. He and Dante will be dead soon. I just thought you should know. In case you were thinking you had a chance to get out of here. No one is coming to save you. No one."

"Leave them alone!" I say with bared teeth and the fact that I cannot do anything to warn Dante or Liam is killing me. If what Veronica is saying is true, that means the girl Colton went to get is Naomi. I can't believe this. This cant be happening. I refuse to believe that Naomi will be subject to the same fate as me.

I want to scream and shout and burn this entire place to the ground but I have no power here. Veronica has it all. All I can do is sit in pure rage and watch her ruin everything. All I can do is watch it all unfold and it makes me feel so useless, so fucking useless.

I hate the triumphant look on her face as I cry. I hate how confused I am. I hate the fact that my questions might never have answers. I hate this. I hate it all and I want to end.

"You're a fucking monster!" I scream at her, hot tears falling down my face. "I hate you! I'm going to kill you. I swear I'm going to put a bullet right through your skull!"

She frowns. "Oh my dear. And how do you plan on doing that when you are so utterly and completely powerless." She says in the softest voice ever and then lands a blow to my head. I scream, I struggle to breathe. I pass out.