DESERVES KARMA

ADELINE'S POV

Veronica allowed me to meet Naomi. She went out earlier and when she came back, she looked like she was in a pretty good mood. She came to my room, asked me to get dressed and right now, two guards are walking me towards where they're keeping Naomi. My heart thunders in my chest. The last time I saw Naomi, she was in an awful state. She was rugged out of her mind. She was unconscious. I cannot even begin to imagine how crazy Liam must be going.

Naomi was taken right from under his nose. He must blame himself so much. I don't know how he'll take it if something ever happened to Naomi. She has to get out of here safely. She just has to.

"You have fifteen minutes." One of the guards says as he shoves me inside a room and locks the door. The room is dimly lit. I look over to a cage and see a scared Naomi staring back at me. The squints her eyes and the second she recognizes me, she bursts into tears.

"Adeline?" She basically sobs, crawling to the edge and holding her hand out towards me.

"They said we have fifteen minutes." I say as I break into a sob myself. She looks better than she did the last time. I see a plate of food next to her, unfinished but it looks like she just ate and I decide not to tell her about the drugs they put in the food.

"Oh God, Adeline. What is going on? I'm so scared Adeline? Who are these people Adeline? What do they want? What did I do to them?" She cries hysterically as she holds on to me despite the metal bars of her cage separating us.

"How do I get out of here Adeline?" She cries desperately. "I'm so happy to see you. I've been losing my mind in here. I'm so confused, I don't know what's going on."

I nod my head as she speaks because I know how she must be feeling. She has been isolated from people and she's all alone in here. It's the worst kind of torture.

"I want you to know that none of this is your fault. You didn't do anything. It was all Adrian." I cry as I speak quickly. I know there must be cameras in this room so I have to choose what I say to her very carefully. I cannot reveal to her that I am working with Colton and I cannot reveal to her that Dante and Liam have a plan to bust us out of here, a plan that I'm not very sure will work well for me.

Maybe they'll be able to get Naomi out. Maybe they'll be able to save Colton's sister, but I am not so sure that they'll be able to save me. Not with the look I saw in Arthur's eyes. I don't know if they'll ever be able to save the girls that are supposed to be auctioned off. Veronica will never let that happen.

"We're in a sex trafficking organization Naomi. It's called erotica. I can't go into the details on how I was brought here but it was all Adrian's fault. Liam and Dante, they must have tried to find me. They must have done something to anger these people and I'm sure that's why they took you. To teach you a lesson. You're just a victim of circumstance Naomi and I am so sorry. I don't know how to help you. I'll be auctioned off soon and I begged Veronica to let me see you, to let me say goodbye to you."

As I speak, I feel Naomi's hand fall to the floor, I can feel her stumble backwards and land on her butt as she gives me a dreadful look. She looks like I just took the last thread of hope she had in her. She looks like I just broke her heart in the worst way possible but I don't know what to tell her. I don't want to sell her a dream ad make her think there might be a way for us to get out of this.

"You're getting sold?" She asks me as her eyes soften. Even in her helpless state I can see pity in her eyes for me. Even in her state and despite the fact that I'm the reason she's here in the first place, because I played with fire and burned everyone around me, she still feels sorry for me.

"So this is our fate? You expect me accept that, Adeline? We have to fight. We have to find a way to get out of here. There must be a way. There must be. I can't accent this Adeline. A trafficking organization??" She cries even harder as my words hit her deeper, as she comes to the realization of the situation we're in. I can tell she knows this is serious.

"Oh my God." She cries even harder. There's nothing I can say. There are no words to make the situation better. Everyone knows how difficult it is to get freed from a trafficking organization. We've all heard stories of girls getting missing and never being found again. Our escape from this place is unlikely. Unless God himself gives us a miracle.

"I just wanted to say goodbye Naomi. I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry. I'm so sorry this is happening to you and I'm so sorry I have absolutely no idea how to stop it. I'm so sorry." I say and sit on the floor, cradling myself with my hands.

Naomi doesn't say anything as she stares at me. She looks so completely and utterly defeated. The look in her eyes tells me she doesn't blame me but she looks so hurt. So hurt that I cannot even stand to look at her.

"What will happen to me Adeline?" She asks me in a voice so soft, so scared, so vulnerable that I cannot take the twist in my heat. "What will happen when they decide that I no longer serve then a purpose. They're going to kill me, aren't they? They're going to dispose of me?"

Her sobs break my heart. Her sobs hurt my head. Her sobs make my skin crawl. Her sobs make me want to run out of this room. I don't answer her. I just stare at her but the look in my eyes tells her everything she needs to know. She cries even harder as she stares at me.

"My parents. They must be worrying. My parents don't know where I am oh my God. Liam must be so worried. My parents will be blowing up his phone soon when they don't hear from me because they get worried when I go a whole week without calling them. Adeline. I'm going to lose my mind. I can't take this Adeline. I can't live like this. I'd rather die than live another day with the knowledge you just gave me. I can't do this. I can't… I can't."

As Naomi shakes her head aggressively and hysterically, the guards suddenly walk back in and basically drag me out of the room.

"I'm so sorry Naomi." I scream as they pull me out of the room. The last look I see on her face as the guards lock the door shut will forever be ingrained in my memory. I will dream about that look and I will blame myself for not being enough. For not having the strength to save her.

I will forever be blamed for whatever is happening right now. I'm the one who decided to steal from Adrian. I'm the one who brought Liam into it despite knowing it would be dangerous and now everyone I love is suffering because of me. This is all my fault. I can't keep blaming Dante. He didn't do this. I did. I did this all by myself. I dug my own grave and now I'll have to live with it.

I'll have live with the consequences of my actions and all the people around me that I've hurt will have to live with the trouble hat I created. Auction day will come to pass, Arthur will successfully buy me and I'll have to live with him for as long as he allows me. I'll have to suck it up and deal with what I started in the first place.

And now even Naomi has to pay a price for my mistakes and I hate myself for it. I'll never forgive myself if something happens to her.

As the guards lead me down the corridor and back into my room, Veronica stops me in my tracks and she pouts in a mocking way when she notices the look on my face and my tear-stained cheeks.

"That little visit of yours didn't do anything to ease the pain in your mind did it?" She asks rhetorically and walks away. Every time I look at Veronica, I ask myself how a woman can see other women suffering and not feel any kind of remorse?

How can she watch her fellow women go through so much and not feel any kind of pain? How does she sleep at night and what the fuck is wrong with her? She's just a monster. I hate her so much. I hate her and she deserves karma for what she does in this place. She deserves to suffer in hell with the devil.