Cannibalistic (Book Two of A Bloodline's Saga)

An Almost Successful Escape: Part II

We stand in line for eternal rest

We all linger a true mortal death

Leave behind this bitter scourge

All is born cursed

Daemon

"I'll get Ida to make us something for lunch first before we pack it in for the day." Shaun explains with the sun currently high in the sky now and everyone awake is out of the car, my eyes looking over at a still passed out Tabitha for the first time in the light and find she's an attractive girl.

Her skin's fair and spotted with a few tattoos, her hair a dark mocha and a lip piercing glistening in the sun. 

The girl wakes up though when the car door on her side opens and she finds herself in restraints, her amber eyes landing on me instantly and begging for me to help her.

Remembering she saw me in the car before Liam knocked her out, I'm relieved to say I'll be able to inform her in on everything when I give her the food I'm meant to be making for us all.

So setting out on that while Liam takes care of Tabitha and Shaun's being patched up by a doctor who's clearly close with the cannibals and their families, my thoughts are put on hold along with my mission of making brunch when Shaun and Liam finally make it to one another to discuss our next move.

"The plans for gathering more people are still set in stone, we just have to wait until the heat dies down a bit before we can get back to it, but that only gives me time to track down the parents considering Kylie and Nathan will now be coming to us in favour of rescuing their daughter. Then soon enough my search for my parent's killers will come to an end." Shaun starts off when I hear their footsteps heading towards the kitchen where I'm currently making food.

"Okay, Ida you almost done?" Liam asks while taking a break from planning our last victim to take, my eyes avoiding his as I continue to plate up my infamous Vegemite sandwiches seeing as how that's all there is to offer right now.

"Yes." I grumble then grab the sandwiches and take them to the room where Tabitha is, my mind wondering if the girl is awake or not and if she is, how much does she exactly know of our situation.

Taking a deep breath I open the door and find the girl awake, her form huddled on the bed and watery amber eyes peering up at me from her lashes.

"Why didn't you help me when I called for you?" she starts off as I inch closer with the plate of food as if it's a peace offering.

"Because I'd be killed for trying, but believe it or not I'm here to help you, we just have to time our escape or we'll end up like the oth-"

"There were others?" she cuts across me with wide eyes and form stretching out as she sits on the edge of the bed to take in more of what I have to say.

"Yes there were about fifteen of them, sixteen including you if they weren't taken away. Apparently there's one more on Shaun's list, the older guy that brought you here along with the younger one Liam. Anyway we're being targeted because of what our parents did over eighteen year-"

"Oh my God, it's that Max guy isn't it?" she once again intervenes, my heart racing at the mentioning of the psycho's name yet my head nods.

"I know I'm not meant to know but a few years back I went snooping through my parent's s**t and came across my Mum's diary. Well long story short, I found they were held hostage by a bunch of cannibals and that they were a part of some mass murder or whatever they call a bunch of people killing a bunch of other people. Then a week or so ago there were murmurs of this Max coming back and hunting down some girl named Ida. Her parents came over to my house not too long ago warning mine of something, yet my parents were so secretive that it actually got me kidnapped. If I had of known this Shaun guy was also after-"

"No one did, I didn't even know he was my half-Uncle until over two or so weeks ago. And as for this Ida girl, I'm Ida. I'm so sorry my parents are bringing everyone into this but Shaun is after the people who killed his parents and he won't stop until they come forward. As for the others before you came, they happen to be the children of the people who escaped with our parents the night of their slaughter and have been taken by people who want revenge. The people our parents killed all those years back happen to have children, all of them demanding yours, theirs and my blood for revenge and closure." I explain across her while tears start to fall down the girl's fair skinned cheeks.

"So in other words the people our parents killed all those years back have children who want to kill us for it, Shaun is helping Max I assume by giving us to him and his other cannibal friends and I expect the people before I came here to be dead. Meaning we don't have f*****g much time to get out of here!" she sobs quietly when Liam and Shaun's voices seem to get louder.

"We will and I'm sure your parents Kylie and Nathan won't be far behind finding us, if not we just count down the days until we are to meet Max, his son and the others and hope a miracle happens." I choke out over my closing up throat when the realisation of how close the date really is hits me like a ton of bricks, my eyes forcing back threatening tears of my own as the faces of my parents come to the surface and I'm wishing they didn't f**k up the way they did all those years ago.

As I said, they should have either finished off their entire families or just left them to be locked up by the Police, now not only are our parents being hunted, but also their precious children who are currently being picked off one by one.

"Do you think Max will take me as well or will someone else?" she sniffles as more tears soak her face and chin, my hand grabbing hers while squeezing it to not only comfort her but myself considering not even I know where she will end up.

Just like my friends right now, who knows where they are and if they're even alive, they could be dead right now for all I know and when I get out it will be something I'll have to face their parents with.

Will they hate me or will they understand? I just hope they're smart enough to stay alive and time their escape so that if I do make it out, I get to see my bestfriends again.

But it's all a fat load of bullshit and life isn't a f*****g fairy tale, they're most likely dead and I bet you any money the parents will demand what happened to them.

"I don't know Tabitha; all we can do right now is wait. But I have to go otherwise Shaun and Liam will start to think something's up. I'll be back later to tell you more if I can, but for now just keep quiet and stick to yourself." I suggest before I'm out of the room with the door clicking shut behind me, my hands quickly relieving any signs of crying until deeming myself ready to face Shaun and Liam.

Heading to where their voices are sounding from, I'm about to round the corner when a bunch of cars screeching into our driveway has me now running to the lounge room to see who's about to come bursting through the door, Liam finally telling us who they are and asking Shaun why a bunch of his men are here.

With screams from familiar voices sounding around the front yard, the door eventually is kicked in and in come the people I thought Max's friends took, their faces bloody and body's grazed up as if they'd been chased through the woods or somewhere with a lot of sharp and rough obstructions.

"What the f**k?" Shaun frowns after Liam's done quickly dividing them up into the spare rooms we have, the girls joining Tabitha while the males get Liam's room, forcing Liam to sleep out on the couch with Shaun safe in keeping his room.

"We found them all trying to get their way back home, lucky we caught them before they could get home but there are some still out there." a masked man explains to Shaun as the other masked men keep an eye on me and make sure the people who escaped are locked securely in their rooms.

With the faces of Hanna, Storm, Anakin, Jason, Markus, Dan and Zeke flowing through my brain like a movie, the question of would they have told me and would they have come back for me starts to surface in my brain and I start to wonder how long they had his planned for or if it was a spare of the moment thing.

For all I know they did it so I wouldn't get in trouble because they know what Liam's like towards me and only fear what Shaun may do considering they haven't seen him angry much.

"So the fuckers forged the letter?" Shaun asks more himself, Liam shooting him a dry look then answering. 

"Clearly now we just have to keep a closer eye on them, so I'm glad I'm out in the lounge because I'm a light sleeper. That and I'm sure we have a bit of that Ice left anyway." he grins and for some reason his eyes are landing on me, my insides crawling at the now subtle smirk that's forming on his full lips and the question of me having anything to do with it comes lingering back in his stare.

Why is he looking at me like that for? It's like he's trying to share something with me though I'm too scared and in shock to pick up what he's laying down.

"You don't say, lucky I didn't ring Nate hey?" Shaun snickers with Liam joining in soon after as his men start to exit the house, Liam thanking them on the way out and stating he'll keep them posted on what's going on.

"It is but it's also funny how we leave and over fourteen people manage to escape, Ida-"

"Oh come on Liam, I was with you guys the whole f*****g time!" I shout then instantly Liam's suspicious look turns to one of pure hostility.

There goes that ship of keeping s**t between Liam and I peaceful...

"YOU f*****g b***h! I KNOW IT WAS YOU!" he screams in my face after charging his way over to me, Shaun a little shocked to react considering it's all happening so fast when Liam's hand is now tight around my throat, his emerald eyes piercing into mine as black spots start to appear and I'm automatically thinking I'm back to square one with this cunt.

"OI! LIAM! Enough! I'm sure we will get to the bottom of how they escaped, that's why I am leaving you in charge of it but Ida is not to be interrogated! Don't be f*****g stupid you heard the girl, she was with us the whole time and that we both know!" Shaun shouts and automatically Liam's grip is gone and air is once again able to fill my lungs.

Coughing and spluttering while Liam doesn't stick around to hear what else Shaun has to say, the golden haired male observes as I pick myself up in front of him, wondering if his Uncle instincts kicked in then and that's the reason why he's sticking up for me right now.

Confused because I thought Shaun would have been all for it, I stare deep into his gunmetal blue eyes after extending his pasty s***h red hand towards me and offer him a forced yet subtle half-smile when I take it. 

"Don't mind him, he's just a little stressed considering we could have all been in big shit." he explains when we hear the backdoor slam shut and for some reason I wonder where he's going.

Not saying anything while I take a hesitant seat on the couch, Shaun only sighs before running a hand through his golden hair and muttering something along the lines of needing to find Liam.

"I'll be back, you can stay here I don't care but if you try to run, you won't make it far considering Liam's men will be manning the house on the outside for us now because any day now, we will be taking you all up to Max's son Nate's place where the supposed trade will go down. Though I won't call it much of a trade due to me not getting anything in return other than another day to live." he goes on whilst getting up from his position on the couch with a cigarette in the process of making it to his lips.

"Okay and where are you going?" I blurt but try and hide the surprise on my face in favour of Shaun being the only one to wear it right now, my mind chiding me for wanting someone so sadistic around even when there's someone just as sadistic waiting for me right around the corner.

But out of the both, I'm starting to find that he's a little safer to be around than Liam because other than forcing food down my throat, Shaun hasn't been physical with me for ages and the way he went off at Liam tells me that he won't tolerate Liam's hands on me. So if I can get Liam to do it enough times in front of Shaun, who knows what will happen?

"I'm going to grab Liam and I'm actually going to head out with a few of his men to where they last saw the others." he explains slowly as the surprise from me wanting to know where he was going, is eventually wiped from his face and replaced with his usual stressed and sleep deprived expression.

Don't get me wrong, I hate Shaun and Liam but if I pretend to be nice to Shaun like I was just five seconds ago, then I might be able to get more information out of him that could help my new friends and I escape.

Just like the information he gave to me about grabbing Liam and hunting down the rest of those who got away, meaning this could be the best time for me to talk to them and find out why they left without me and see if they had a choice or not.

Because if they were going to risk all of them getting caught by waiting for me then I totally get it, but the plan was we go together and make no plans without me, so this could be f*****g interesting.

"Oh, well I'll be in my room until you get back then. I don't think Liam would want me around right now, especially in the mood he is in." I squeak when the adrenaline is back and I'm replaying every violent encounter I've ever had with Liam like a film in my head, each scene sending the bile further and further up my throat until I'm swallowing hard to force it down.

"Good choice and Ida, you tell me if he lays another hand on you." he murmurs lowly as the backdoor opens and Liam's hostile vibe is felt even from where I stand, my stomach cramping with incoming gags though I'm strong enough to keep them supressed when I give Shaun a nod and scurry off to my cell.

Knowing Liam's smart enough for Shaun to leave, I sit in a balled position on my bed and count down the minutes until Liam makes an appearance in my room, my eyes almost shutting due to lack of sleep until flinging open when my bedroom door creaks.

"Ida I don't have long until Shaun and I hit the road, so care to tell me the truth now?" Liam starts off in a weirdly calm tone though his emerald eyes burn with the urge to beat the f**k out of me, my eyes welling with more tears when I think that no matter how much I tell him I don't know, he isn't going to take that for an answer and I sense that I'll be dead before the truth really comes out.

"I did Liam; I don't know what you want me to say? They went behind my back and did it themselves because if I had of went with them, we wouldn't be back." I choke in a trembling voice, my mind chiding myself for not sounding stronger yet when there's this psycho standing in front of me with thoughts of beating and raping me, I think all signs of strength and bravery are out of the window considering it's even worse with each time it happens.

"I think you do and I'm not leaving until you tell me. As for them planning this behind your back, I highly doubt it because I have seen the way you've all grown close to one another. People only do that when they have one thing in common or the same goal and we all know what that is. Meaning they wouldn't leave you behind." he smirks while standing in front of the door as if a bouncer would at a pub, my eyes darting to the window and wondering if I'll be saved by those currently watching the house but doubt it very much because something would have happened by now.

Well sorry to break it to you Liam, they really did leave me behind and I'm now questioning whether they would have returned for me or not.