Chapter <i>55 </i>Trusting Someone
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The big door was locked tight, and someone was guarding outside. Tracy knew she couldn’t get out that way, so she needed to find another n.
Tracy’s eyesnded on a seven–foot–high window with shattered ss.
Besides the door, that was the only way out.
Right below the window stood a tall iron frame, and the run–down factory was full of all kinds of messy junk.
Tracy gathered some stuff she could stack up as steps to help her climb the frame.
Her movements were quiet and soft, careful not to make a single sound.
When she finished, she took off one shoe and put it on the frame, but didn’t climb up yet.
After double–checking she hadn’t missed anything, Tracy turned and suddenly locked eyes with a pair of sharp eyes.
The surprise scared her so much she almost screamed, but she held it in.
The bloody man who’d been unconscious somehow woke up and was now staring at her with no expression.
Though his youthful face was strong and handsome, with clear, sharp eyes, Tracy couldn’t shake the heavy, dangerous feeling she got from him.
He reminded her of the broken people she’d seen at the Angelic Etiquette Academy over the past two years–those almost driven crazy by that ce.
Her heart tightened.
She knew exactly what kind of hell that was.
<i>If </i><i>this </i><i>man </i>is <i>sent </i>to the Angelic Etiquette Academy… the consequences waiting <i>for </i>him <i>could </i><i>be </i><i>worse </i><i>than </i>what <i>I’ve </i>been <i>through</i><i>. </i>
Thinking about the Academy’s glittering yet grimy facade, Tracy felt a tangle of
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pity and unease.
She knew all too well how rotten that dazzling hell was. She’d only survived because people had risked their lives to clear her path, to get her out.
So she couldn’t just stand there and watch someone be sent there right in front of
her.
After a moment, Tracy hurried over and crouched beside the man. She whispered, “I’m kidnapped too. I can help you escape if you follow my n.”
He nodded without hesitation.
He’d woken while Tracy was watching outside the door.
He saw how calm she was, and how her eyes showed hesitation and kindness for a moment, so he trusted her–for now–but still looked cautious.
Seeing him decide so quickly, Tracy rxed a bit.
If she’d gotten someone clueless, she might have been stressing over how to save them and how not to get caught herself.
Tracy helped him up by the arm. “Can you still move?”
He nodded. “Yeah.”
His voice was rough. Tracy supported one of his arms, and he pressed the other on the ground as he stood.
His injuries were bad, his muscles tight from pain, but he didn’tin as Tracy helped him deeper into the factory.
The farther they went, the darker it got. In the corner, a metal sheet leaned against the wall, making a small triangr shelter.
Tracy helped him into the space and looked at his clothes. “Can you take off your jacket?”
He hesitated a moment, then peeled it off.
The movement pulled at his wounds, but he didn’t flinch.
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He agreed to follow her n, and even if he didn’t understand it, he didn’t ask questions.
Tracy had been ready to exin, but seeing him act so quickly, she froze.
She hadn’t expected a stranger to trust her like this in a life–or–death moment, while the Jackmans, who had raised her for 18 years, only doubted her.
She swallowed her feelings and looked at his blood–soaked shirt, the fierce wounds. showing beneath. She warned, “Stay still. Don’t make a sound.”
Then she turned and ran back quickly.
The man leaned against the wall, his eyes never leaving her.
She reached the iron frame under the window and rubbed blood stains from his jacket onto the floor, the stacked stuff she’d used as steps, and the frame itself.
Finally, she balled up the jacket and ran back to him.
The man understood her n immediately and shifted inside the shelter.
Tracy sat beside him, curling her body as small as possible, carefully watching outside.
Now, all they could do was wait.
Tracy kept her eyes outside, not knowing the man beside her was watching her too.
His clear eyes were full of curiosity and doubt as he studied her.
In the quiet little space, the only sounds were their breathing.
After a while, the man suddenly asked, “What’s your name? Why did they kidnap you?”
His voice was low, and the tight space made it sound like a whisper right by her
ear.
Tracy turned and met those clear eyes.
Only now, on edge, did she realize how close they were. Instinctively, she shrank
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back a little.
Even though they were both trapped, Tracy stayed careful.
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Whether with people she grew up with or strangers trapped in that hell, she knew that trusting someone so easily could cost way too much. She wasn’t willing to risk it again.
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Chapter <i>56 </i>Don’t Want Them to Find Me
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