She is the one by Asheslove (book recommendations for young adults txt) 📕

I didn't thought it would be that hard for me to submit myself to Nicolas in return for safety of my family and friends but then again won't these words are the reason why I came this long fighting with him all the while just not to submit myself to him. 

Every time, every single time whenever I muster my courage putting stone on my heart and even come close to say it, these words somehow got stuck in my throat and choke me. 

Every day I decide to say it and then end up on pillow closing my eyes with regret for not being able to confess it. Every night after my futile effort I made my mind again hoping to confess it next day but nothing change and cycle continued.

As much as I tried to say it, it become more difficult for the words to came out of my throat.

In all this I was also trying to execute what's decided. There's landlines in his house but I can't use any of them because he use the one which is in his office for his business work while the other one was to make a home call yet I can't use it because I know the phone calls on it get tapped, Leo once warned me about it in starting after my escape.

So there's only one persons phone which I could use and that's Lily. Lily has her personal phone which is restricted for others who work here. I'd never seen other maids having mobile phones.

 Lily won't came every day, it's just once or sometimes twice a week fixed for her work but nowadays she started coming more often and I like her company. I several times tried to get my hands on her phone but to my worst luck she wouldn't take it out of her damn pocket.

I still don't know whoever that cunning woman was and what connection she shares with the police department and how the hell she had all the mere information which is so confidential. Its matter of fact that Nicolas always keeps his business away from me. Even if his friends and partners are at home, they won't talk about it in front of me but again it’s been a long since my life is far out of logics and how connections I share, Nicolas is greatest example of it. 

I'd lost all my hopes and become despondent in this darkness of his world in which I somehow managed to engulf with him, I am fading in here so finally when I get this small light of hope I am going to cling on it desperately even after knowing the consequences.

Time is running out and I am lost at choices. I trust Uncle David, as he knows where my parents are and with police on our side maybe I should worry less. They will obviously rescue my family safely and after that me.

Everything is going on bad here, that woman is a bad news to not only me but Nicolas too.

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The next day finally I got the chance I was waiting for.

When I was in the garden I pointed the water pipe at Lily and drenched her laughing and telling her it's my revenge on her for last time when she drenched me and before she drench me I saved myself.

'Now this time it’s you who have to take a shower' I chuckled giving her towel and she gave me fake frown and then laughed with me.

Lily didn't smell anything fishy in my actions either then just one of my plays and I send her to take bath in one of the guest rooms which were cleaned by maids a week ago.   

When she left inside bathroom, I came back in room and found her phone lying on table. I took the phone and sprinting towards Nicolas room shut the door.

Her phone has a pattern lock but I'd many times seen her unlocking it so I quickly unlocked the pattern and dialed the number I remembered, I revised the number many times even after memorizing them thinking I might forget them. My heart palpitating in my chest furiously.

The long ring went and I waited like I was told till someone receive the call but no one picked it. Fear creeping in me with every passing second. I again dialed the number and waited till the last ring.

 My heart beat rapid was I hoped lily hadn't come out yet. 

Just when the ring was about to die again the call is received and then hang up.

I quickly removed the call history from call logs and locking the phone put it back from where I received it.

It's done, it's done. Now they knew where I am. The mere thought of what Nicolas will do with me when found about what I'd done came to my mind and a ripple of shiver run down my back. This is too bad.

Two days later of the call I got the message from Uncle David.

After giving call on the number he gave me I was waiting for any message from him and since I ain't have any idea how it's going to came I started giving maids early leave not wanting anyone to caught me. 

At evening when my stomach started growling with hunger I ordered pizza, not wanting to go in kitchen because I also had to cook dinner so that's the only option left. It used to take everything in me to cook for myself in LA and here I am cooking two time meals every day. How much is changed in these months.

When the order arrives, being careful guards take it and then Lorenzo handed it to me. When I opened the box I found a note in it. 

'Three days, be ready. Once we'll get your family, we will come for you'. U.D written in the end and that's all.

Three days, only three more days and I will be away from all this but being more than happy I am petrified this time thinking about the trouble I am bringing on myself if things won’t go as decided.

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It was morning and I wake up as usual thinking Nicolas might have left for the work.

I'd been keeping distance from him from few days, I even lied to him telling I am on my periods to stay away from him, both because of fear of him finding about something or maybe because I hated the fact that he had gone soft on me after everything he did.

I tried to avoid him as much as I can because whenever I look in his eyes and the look he gave me started reluctantly making a part of me guilty for what I am going to do. His softness towards me gets under my nerves making me more frustrated at myself for feeling that way and not being able to say what he wanted to listen