“Is it part of the Elites? Or is this personal?” I asked. I wanted to know his reason for coming all the way over here, to grab me after everything that’s happened.
“I’m not obligated to answer,” he simply said.
I looked at him, my body stiffening. He seemed friendly in his words, but I could tell that there was an air of hatred, an air of possible fallout that stemmed from this, and a part of me wondered just what in the world would happen next. I felt a bit nervous, but I was intrigued.
There was that feeling of curiosity, and there was the fact that, if I chose not to go along with him, I wouldn’t be in a good place. I’d be in deep shit otherwise. I wanted to find out the answer, especially since if I don’t, I’ll be threatened or hurt again.
That’s what bothered me the most about these guys. There was no way for me to stand up for myself. I felt like I was at the mercy of this group, and I never would be able to break out. But I was surprised that Luca or Phoenix didn’t come grab me.
“Why didn’t the other two come?” I asked.
“That’s none of your business. But they asked me because they figured you had the least attachment to me,” he said.
His voice was icy, and off-putting. For a moment, I felt a bit on edge when I heard him speak. But, I nodded, taking his words in and understanding everything. It surprised me, and I knew that, with the way everything was, it would certainly change things.
When we got outside, he headed towards the left. I had my phone and wallet on me in case I needed to get the hell away. This was the first time in a few days I’d been out of my room, and I prayed that I’d avoid everyone I didn’t want to see.
But we soon headed for one of the libraries. On campus, there were five of them, with three of them being used the most off. This was one of the two that wasn’t used all that much, almost abandoned in a sense. I wondered why I was brought here, that is until I was shuffled inside, and motioned to go to the left.
“First door on the left,” he said with a quiet voice.
Thorn was looking about, as if to make sure not a soul was following us. I mean, maybe this was something that I’d have to just face on my own. I felt fear though. For the first time in a while, I felt nervous about what might transpire next. I went into the room, and in front of me was Phoenix and Luca. They sat in the meeting room, and I looked at the way the room was.
It was empty, abandoned, and just the two of them, and of course Thorn and I, resided in here. I felt a feeling of dread, of nervousness, and I feared what might happen from this.
“W-what’s going on?” I asked them.
“Oh, we’re here to discuss something with you,” Phoenix said.
“You guys look like you’ve been waiting for me. Why, is it really that important?” I snapped.
“Perhaps. Have a seat, and we’ll get to business,” they said.
I had a bad feeling about this. I looked at all of them, realizing that they haven’t broken eye contact with me since I got here. I couldn’t really do much, however, besides sit down, and figure out what the hell was going on. I then put myself in that position, looking at them, feeling nervous about all of this.
“Alright, spill it. What the hell is going on?” I asked.
They looked at me, each of them smiling, and I knew for a fact that this was going to change everything. What they were about to reveal was something that I had a nagging feeling about, something which made me hesitant about staying here. But I couldn’t leave no matter what I thought, no matter what I did from here, I was at the em mercy of these men, feeling the anxiety spike within me as I looked at them.
What did they have in mind? I guess I would find out shortly after.
Chapter 23
As I sat there, realizing that they hadn’t moved, I noticed the looks on their face, smiling at me.
“Well, first and foremost, I wanted to show you that we found this,” Phoenix said.
He pulled something from underneath the table, and my eyes widened with both shock, and horror as well.
“Wait that’s—”
“Bingo. This is your laptop,” Luca said with a devilish smile.
“Why do you have it?” I said.
“Well, we’ll talk about that in a bit. We’re going to first and foremost show something to you first. We know the truth about you,” Phoenix said.
The truth…there’s no way they could mean…that.
I sat there, feeling my heart race as I looked at all of them.
“What are you talking about?” I said.
“We know the truth about who you are. We did some digging that wasn’t a part of Tabitha and Dane’s little shindig. They thought they did it correctly, when we were the only ones who actually found the dirt on you. Dane was a fucking idiot for not checking your laptop. It was pretty easy to find out the truth you know. We just had to…look around on the tapes and such here. It didn’t take that long to find it,” Luca replied.
Wait…they couldn’t mean my…
“Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is,” Thorn said.
I felt my body start to grow hot with the heat. They knew about the videos.
“You did a good job at hiding your trail there Jules. It took me a little while to dig it up,” Luca said.
“Yeah, I almost about gave up, when Luca found them,” Phoenix said.
Fuck, they totally found those videos, videos that were supposed to be kept in
