Chapter 186: FRUSTRATED
After releasing a sigh first, she replied, "No but don’t worry, I’m not hungry."
Adrian nodded in understanding before he surprised her with his words, "While I was coming back home, I noticed a car following behind me."
Erika’s heart skipped a beat at the thought that her family had started looking for her.
"But unfortunately for them, they couldn’t keep up with my speed and I lost them," he added, shattering all of Erika’s hopes. "They thought they could follow me and get to know where I kept you. Hmm, they probably wanted to fulfill Ethan’s last wish before he died, which was to snatch you away from me."
He raised his hand and placed it on Erika’s cheeks. The latter controlled herself to not beat him to a pulp at that moment.
"You want to stay with me forever right?" he asked her. "I’m willing to change myself just for you and I’m sorry for not seeing the good woman you always were. I was blind at that time and this time, I want to make things okay between us. Let’s live together and be husband and wife again, Erika," he proposed.
Erika scoffed internally when she heard Adrian’s apologies. After killing her lover, he thought that he could ask for forgiveness so easily and she would forgive him so easily.
Possibly, if he had taken the right approach and had not taken things to this level, she might have found a place in his heart to forgive me but it was already too late for him. Erika was determined to get out of here and make his life a living hell for him.
When he noticed Erika still hadn’t replied to his question, he decided to become specific with his words, "Let’s get married to each other again Erika. Ethan is no longer in the way so there’s no one to stop us."
Erika scoffed internally when she heard the words that Adrian had just spouted. Did she, get married to him? He seems to be drunk, she thought to herself.
Getting her act back together, she replied,
"I think it’s still early for us to get married. You know that your family members do not approve of me, right?"
"I don’t care about them," Adrian interrupted her. "They can go to hell for all I care," he added.
"And what about your son?" She asked him.
Adrian thought for a moment before he suggested, "You can be the stepmother."
Casually lowering her eyes, she objected to their idea, "You know that’s not possible." Not because she didn’t want to be the stepmother of that child but the idea of getting married to Adrian disturbed her. She could only hope that she got out of there before he forced himself on her.
When her eyes landed on Adrian’s pocket that had his phone in it, her eyes immediately lit up with hope. A phone is something that she needs at this moment.
When Adrian noticed she wasn’t making eye contact with him, he held her by the chin so that she could look him in the eyes.
"Of course it is possible," he said. As if in a dreamy state, he added with his eyes closed, "You and I married and our baby by our side."
"You are right," she immediately agreed. "We can be a happy family," she added as she placed her hands on his waist. "I’m just afraid that your stepmother and wife will attack me and call me different names." Her voice lowered at the end, sounding softly and delicate, as if she was about to cry.
Immediately, Adrian comforted her, "Shuu, don’t cry. They dare not do anything to you when I’m here. If they try anything then I will simply send them back to jail, where they belong." He pulled her towards him and hugged her intimately.
"I still need some time to think about it," Erika said between sniffs. She looked into the pocket and saw the phone staring at her as if asking why she hadn’t picked it up yet.
Slowly, she unwrapped one of her hands from his waist and waited for the right time to quickly sneak it out of his pocket.
"I don’t think things are going to go smoothly if Felicia and Mary still live here. Just send them back to jail already," she added.
Frustratedly, she hit his chest to distract him and continued. "Those people will never accept our relationship. Although I’m just realizing it now, I think I still love you, Adrian.
"Really?!" Adrian asked in shock. "You love me?"
Feeling her nod her head on his chest, Adrian hugged her even tighter. "I love you too Erika. I’m sorry for realizing this late but now that we have confessed to each other about our feelings, I’m willing to give you time to think about it. But don’t worry about Mary and Felicia, those people will never be able to harm you or do anything to you," he assured her.
Erika felt him sniff her hair before exhaling and that act disgusted her.
Not being able to take it anymore, Erika took one step backward which created a distance between them.
"What happened?" Adrian asked her with wide eyes and a worried face which looked real. He had hoped they would be in that position for a while but was disappointed when he abruptly moved away from him.
"I don’t think I’m feeling too well," she said to change the topic. Her statement was half true since she did feel sick because of Adrian’s shameless words. His actions made her feel dirty and she needed to scrub her body immediately.
Erika looked away from him and mumbled, "I don’t know but my tummy hurts." I think I need to use the bathroom," she added and quickly bolted from there, heading to the bathroom.
Erika got inside and closed the door afterward. She waited until she heard Adrian’s footsteps leaving the room and when she heard the door click close, she sighed in relief.
Nervously bringing out the phone that she’d hidden in her pocket, she opened it and came upon a password for it to be unlocked.
"Damn it! This is the last thing I need right now," she mumbled under her breath as she tried to type all sorts of figures as she could with the hope that the phone would just unlock immediately.
With shaky hands, she typed the 7th password but still couldn’t unlock it.
In frustration, she lifted the phone in her hand in an attempt to hit it hard on the ground but paused midway when she realized that she still needed to keep this phone the same way that she found it, intact.
But the will to give the phone back to Adrian didn’t let her. She had a phone in her hand and she couldn’t just give it back to Adrian when this could be her only chance to escape from there. But then, it wouldn’t be long before Adrian would start looking for his phone and if he finds it in her hands, he will find out that she was trying to trick him.
"F*ck! What am I going to do now?!"
Erika stared at the phone with the hope that it would just magically unlock by itself.
After thinking for a while, she smirked as an idea popped into her head.
If she can’t make a general call, she can just make an emergency call.
Quickly, she dialed 911 and waited for the phone to ring. In less than 5 seconds, the call connected, and the officer spoke.
"Hello? Please state your emergency."
In a hushed tone, Erika replied to the officer,
"I’ve been kidnapped by Adrian Hart and I can’t get out of here. He’s held me hostage for over a week and he beats me up."
Feeling that the officer wouldn’t believe her if she didn’t sound pitiful, Erika pretended to cry and waited for the officer to speak.
"What’s your name and where do you think you’ve been kept?" The officer asked her.
"I’m Erika Walters, the daughter of the Walters family. I’m sure they are looking for me right now. Please contact them. And as for where I’ve been kept, I don’t know where I am exactly. I’m living in a big mansion and it’s been surrounded by tall walls that prevent me from seeing further outside," she replied.
The officer was shocked to find out that it was the missing Erika Walters who was calling. Quickly, he noted down all of the details before asking another question,
"Miss Walters, whose phone are you using?"
"It’s Adrian’s. I snuck it out of his pocket and it won’t be long before he starts looking for it," Erika replied.
"Okay. I will contact your family and we will start searching. Please do have patience with us," said the officer.
Suddenly, Erika heard footsteps heading towards the bathroom. Feeling her heart skip a beat out of fear, she quickly hung up on the call and hid the phone back inside her pocket.
