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Set me Free, Alpha Hundred and Twenty-Three
DIMITRIWhile Silas and Vance expressed surprise and talked of how this situation had some to be in the first place, my head was bowed. I was deep in thought. At this point, it didn't really matter to me that the woman I had been living with was Grace. Actually, it did but it was pretty insignificant in the grander scheme or things. What I wanted to know, what I had to know, was Valeria's whereabouts.I had loved Grace. I thought I knew her and what she was capable of, but now, I really couldn't vouch for Valeria's safety if she was in Grace's hands. Perhaps the woman I had loved had hurt Valeria in some way. I didn't think Valeria had agreed to stay away from me at her own volition.I hit the table with my fist. Hard. "She has to be found!" The two men stopped talking and finally gave me their attention. "Later, we will probably be able to figure out how Grace is still alive and how she's managed this deception for so long. Now we need to find where the real Valeria is. I'm sure as h
Set me Free, Alpha Hundred and Twenty-Four
VALERIA"Wake up!"After this curt command, I was shaken roughly. I curled in more on myself, afraid to open my eyes, afraid of what was in store for me the moment I opened my eyes. I gasped in pain when I felt a stinging slap on my arm. My eyes flew open. The old man who brought my meals was squatting beside me. This close to me, his nose was wrinkled in disgust.I stank. I knew I stank. The only water Grace had allowed me during my incarceration here was just water to drink."Get up," the man barked, seeing I was fully awake. "You are coming with me.""Where?" I asked.His expression turned ugly. "Stop asking questions and move. Now!"He made a threatening gesture. Not wanting to be manhandled again, I scrambled to my feet. He got a hold of the chains which he had already loosened and used it to lead me out of the room into another room which was a bathroom.He pointed to the soap dish on the floor. "Use that. Take your bath."I started to nod, because frankly I couldn't wait to wa
Set me Free, Alpha Hundred and Twenty-Five
DIMITRI"Good morning, Mr Dimitri.""Good morning, Ellen," I replied. I watched Ellen's gaze shift to the spot beside and then behind me where Valeria almost always was whenever we came to work together."Valeria won't be coming to work today," I told her."Oh." Ellen nodded and continued with what she was doing.I started to walk past her desk, but stopped, making it look like an afterthought. "And Ellen? Make sure you delegate Valeria's workload for today to others. I trust there is nothing you all can't handle. And... before I forget, make sure everyone knows not to call her about anything work related at least for today. Direct all enquiries meant for her to Sasha.Ellen assured me that she and the others would handle everything. I left her briefing Sasha on the intercom. As I walked to the elevator that would take me to my floor, I thought of how nicely my plan was working out.Phase one had been to get Grace to stay home. It wasn't that had to do as she seemed to hate anything t
Set me Free, Alpha Hundred and Twenty-Six
DIMITRIMy phone rang for what felt like the umpteenth time that day, and without looking at it, I knew it was Noah, no doubt calling to learn of Valeria's whereabouts. The man had been blowing up my phone for hours and hours. I hadn't even had a clue on how to go about telling him about Valeria, about what was going on. It had seemed much simpler to ignore him which I was currently doing.There was blessed silence in the room seconds later when the phone stopped ringing. Just before I could begin to relax and marshall my thoughts, the ringing started up again. "Damned stubborn pest," I cursed.I threw a glare at the ringing phone before shooting to my feet. How badly I wanted to turn the ringer off, but I could not afford to do that. Not now.Not when Valeria was missing and Grace was still at large. There were lots of people out there, looking for Valeria. They could call me with information at any time and I had to be ready.I had heard nothing from anyone throughout that day, on
Set me Free, Alpha Hundred and Twenty-Seven
VALERIA"All clear," Silas said as he hurried out of my house.This meant Amelia was still asleep. At a signal from me, Vance got the old man out of the car and slung him over his shoulder. I went ahead of him, led the way into the house. Vance was right on my heels as I led him into a small room which was completely bare of furniture."Keep him here," I said and Vance laid the man on the floor at once.I stepped out into the corridor, looked both ways. No one was in sight, but then I hadn't expected anyone to be after Silas had given the all clear that Amelia was still asleep.Certainly she would raise eyebrows if she saw me with the body of the man who was most certainly Grace's accomplice. If she was in league with Grace, which I still suspected she was, she would warn her.I stepped back, shut the door, locked it. Vance was still standing over the man. Silas, on his knees beside the body, was patting him down."I'm looking for any clue he might have on him," Silas explained.Afte
Set me Free, Alpha Hundred and Twenty-Eight
VALERIAThere was someone commotion outside. I quickly shifted soy back was against the wall and listened. Someone was running and the person was headed right here. Grace and the old man never hurried, never ran. I swallowed nervously, wondering what Grace had planned out for me now.The door of my cell was pushed violently open and Grace stood there, bosom heaving, trembling from head to foot, more agitated than I had ever seen her. Her gaze swept around the room until it lighted on me in the corner. "You bitch!" she said, her voice sounding choked and enraged. "You ruin everything. EVERYTHING!" She poked me in the chest. "Do you know what just happened? Huh?"Not giving her an answer would most likely earn me a slap or a shove in her current mood, so I forced myself to say, "How can I when you keep me locked up in here?"She snarled. Actually snarled."How smart of you to point that out," she mocked. "Of course I keep you locked up in here so everything can go according to the pla
Set me Free, Alpha Hundred and Twenty-Nine
DIMITRI"Will she be fine?" I asked the nurse again."Like I said, Mr Dimitri," said the nurse while she checked Valeria's pulse. "We will do our best to make sure she's fine."With that, I had to be content. The gurney was wheeled into the ward. The e door was shut. I waited for a long time. Standing there, waiting for news would drive me right out of my mind. I knew it.There were other things to do, things that would help take my mind off Valeria's condition. I drove quickly to my house, went into the room where the old man had previously been kept. He sat on the floor, tied up and gagged. I gestured for Silas, who stood guard, to ungag him. The man looked up at me with frightened eyes."Please, I have told you all I know," he pleaded."Not quite," I said. "Tell me where Grace is.""I don't know. I swear I don't. She never confided all her plans to me.""Think carefully before you lie," I warned as I squatted next to him."I'm not lying. I don't know where she is. All I know is she
Set me Free, Alpha Hundred and Thirty
DIMITRIThe policemen, looking grave and worried, were holding a whispered conversation in a corner of their office. I wanted to yell at them to get a move on at finding Grace, then I remembered that they had already sent out some officers a while ago for that exact same purpose.Gosh! I was gradually loosing it.I sighed, massaged my aching temples. There was no way I could rest easy while the Grace and her accomplice were running loose. What if Alexis decided to have a another go at Valeria?My eyes got caught on a photograph of Grace lying between some documents in a file. Her features were exactly like Valeria's and I wondered how somebody so innocent looking, someone sharing the exact same body with another so kind and good, could be so devious."Mr Dimitri." The policeman splayed his hands over the table and fixed me with a steely stare. "This is a very serious case you have brought to our notice-""Of course I know that," I interrupted. "Why else do you think I'm here?""My poi
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