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“Shouldn’t you at least introduce yourself before snooping into other people’s business?” Tracy asked the man, her voice cold and dripping with clear hostility.
The man didn’t seem to notice the frost in her tone. He tilted his head and looked at her for a moment before smiling. “I’m Ronald West, just turned 21, from Jezelton. What about you?”
Tracy hadn’t expected him to be so blunt.
Did <i>he </i><i>miss </i><i>what </i><i>I </i><i>meant</i><i>, </i><i>or </i><i>is </i><i>there </i><i>something </i><i>else </i><i>behind </i><i>that </i><i>honesty</i><i>? </i>
The dim light made it hard for Tracy to see his face clearly or to read what was really in his mind.
After a long pause, she answered, “Tracy Yarwood, 22, from Cloudville.”
In the dark, his clear eyes suddenly shed.
Ronald was about to say something when the sound of chains rattling came from the gate.
Tracy immediately shrank back, holding her breath without even thinking.
The gate swung open, and a man in/gray jacket came in with two others. “Grab the medicine and give it to that <i>guy </i>fast. If
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The gray–jacket man stopped talking, clearly shocked that Tracy, the one who should’ve been tied up, and the person who was supposed to be unconscious on the floor, were both missing.
“Where are they?”
He hurried over and immediately saw a pile of things under the square window and a shoe hanging on the iron frame.
“Damn it. I really underestimated that woman!” He threw the shoe down. “Hurry, chase after them!”
They rushed out without even bothering to lock the door.
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After waiting a while, Tracy finally dared to crawl out from her hiding spot.
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There was no way to climb the wall under the window since there were no footholds or grips, and the iron frame was too high to climb without help. She never nned to escape that way.
But Tracy knew those people would figure out her trick soon enough. She couldn’t stay.
Tracy grabbed her phone and shoe, along with the medicine the gray–jacket man had dropped. Supporting Ronald, she hurried away from the factory as fast as she could.
It was pitch dark, no lights anywhere, making it almost impossible <i>to </i>see or know which way to go.
She bit her lip and picked a random direction to run with Ronald.
As they ran, memories of someone’s advice yed in her mind.
“The street’s too open, and you’ll be a visible target. You’ve got to head where there’s no path, somewhere easy to hide.
“When running, always erase your tracks. If you get the chance, make fake trails in other directions to confuse whoever’s chasing you.
“Remember, stay calm. As long as you’ve got breath, don’t stop. Just keep moving forward.”
Those were the exact words she’d been told when escaping the Angelic Etiquette Academy long ago.
She hadn’t needed them for two years, but now, they came back.
Ronald followed quietly like a shadow.
As they ran, his wounds kept reopening. The blood soaked through again, the pain and paleness on his handsome face impossible to miss in the night, but he never
made a sound.
Watching Tracy clear tracks and make fake trails with practiced ease, he felt like she’d nned this escape a thousand times in her mind before today.
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Who <i>is </i><i>she</i>?
<i>What </i><i>has </i><i>she </i>been through<i>? </i>
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<i>Why </i>does it feel like, even <i>though </i><i>she’s </i><i>right </i><i>here</i><i>, </i><i>she’s </i><i>locked </i><i>inside </i><i>some </i><i>separate </i>world?
The people who took <i>us </i><i>aren’t </i><i>ordinary</i>. <i>She’s </i><i>smart </i><i>enough </i><i>to </i><i>know </i><i>that</i>, after being kidnapped, the best <i>thing </i><i>is </i><i>to </i>wait <i>for </i><i>her </i><i>family </i><i>to </i><i>rescue </i><i>her</i><i>. </i>
But she’s <i>trying </i><i>so </i><i>hard </i><i>to </i><i>escape</i>–<i>does </i><i>that </i><i>mean she </i><i>knows </i><i>her </i><i>family </i><i>won’t </i><ie</i><i>? </i>
<i>Has </i><i>she </i><i>been </i><i>left </i><i>behind </i><i>by </i><i>them</i>?
Or, like me, <i>was </i><i>she </i><i>handed </i><i>over </i><i>to </i><i>kidnappers </i><i>by </i><i>her </i><i>own </i><i>family</i><i>? </i>
Tracy didn’t know how long they’d been running.
Her legs felt numb, like machines with no feeling, just following the order to run.
Finally, they left the wild open grass and hills behind and reached an old neighborhood packed with low houses.
When Tracy saw the lights and people, her strength drained instantly. She copsed,pletely exhausted.
Ronald hadn’t expected her to fall and went down with her, pain making him hiss sharply.
Only then did Tracy remember she wasn’t alone and quickly asked, “Are you okay?”
Ronald gasped, teeth clenched in pain. “I’m okay for now, but if we keep going, I might notst much longer.”
Though he joked, Tracy heard the weakness in his voice.
She was out of breath too, but they still weren’t safe–they didn’t even know where they were.
Thinking <b>hard</b>, Tracy asked, “Can you hold on? I’ll get you to a hospital first-
“No hospitals!” Ronald said suddenly, his voice urgent and serious.
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Tracy stared at him. “You’re badly hurt. Why won’t you go to a hospital?”
His eyes, like whirlpools, seemed to pull her in.
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After a long silence, he said, “Because I was handed over to kidnappers by my biological family. I don’t want them to find me.”
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