The Silent Walk


    To my surprise, the door unlocked with the scan of his finger. The small hair on the back of my neck


    stood up at the extra security. If I didn’t remember wrongly, none of the other doors that I had seen in


    the mansion had this security measure. That alone already told me that this room was quite different


    from the rest.


    The door clicked unlocked, and Hayden opened it with ease before he pulled me in through the door


    after him. At that point, I was so scared that I had already gotten over most of my fears. My body was


    no lower frozen from shock or fear and my mind had started to clear. Perhaps my experience of living


    with Hayden is now working to my benefit. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I had gotten slightly used to


    Hayden’s anger and this wasn’t the first time that I had incurred his wrath. Although this time, I had to


    admit that it was probably fully my fault. Hayden had the right to be mad at me and I was willing to


    suffer and go through his punishment.


    However, I knew that the offense that I hadmitted this time was much worse than the ones in the


    past. There were many factors involved that made my current situation much more dire and difficult


    unfortunately uncovered some of the brothers’ evil ns. Harvey was involved and he wanted me killed


    for finding out that he was still alive. I didn’t even know why the two brothers needed to fake Harvey’s


    death to fool the world. Nothing was making sense.


    The door mmed closed behind us and I could hear the automatic sound of the mechanics of the lock


    locking the door. The door clicked locked, and I was trapped into a dimly lit hallway with Hayden.


    Hayden seemed aloof and disengaged on the surface, but I knew well enough that he was boiling with


    anger inside. The colder he appeared on the outside, the angrier he was on the inside. Unfortunately, I


    had learnt that from personal experience. I bit my lower lip as I waited for whatever was thee.


    My mind kept listing reasons why Hayden would probably keep me alive and that was when I realized


    that I was truly scared of dying at his hands. I could be overly giving credit to myself, but I had to say


    that I have been a pretty decently good girlfriend to him. He locked me up in his mansion and I


    obediently stayed. Although I did throw a pretty long fit before we managed toe to an


    understanding. I sent him off to work and weed him back home almost every day. I slept with him


    whenever he wanted which was very often.


    He can’t just kill me, right?


    I never knew that there was a hallway hidden behind a door like this and I wasn’t surprised that I didn’t


    know. This ced screamed “secret hallway” and I doubt that any of the staff in the mansion knew


    about its existence either. Goosebumps formed on my skin and my fear returned in full swing.


    He’s not going to kill me here and dispose of my body, right?


    What am I even thinking? I’m going crazy but then again, everything about this is crazy.


    The hallway was so dim that I could barely see. It seemed empty and the walls seemed undecorated,


    and it was narrow but wide enough for two people to walk side by side. Not that I could ever be walking


    at his side under these circumstances. Hayden pulled roughly on my arm, yanking me after him as he


    proceeded down the narrow hallway. Where does this hallway lead and just how far does it go?


    Despite theck of adequate lighting in the hallway, Hayden strode confidently forward like he had


    been here a million times before and was so used to the path. He walked faster and I almost stumbled


    in my attempt to keep up. His grip around my wrist felt like steel. It hurts whenever he pulled roughly on


    my arm. My hand was starting to go numb from theck of blood flow; however, I didn’t dare voice my


    difort to him.


    Suddenly, Hayden came to a stop, and I heard rather than saw him inputting something into what I


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    assumed was a digital lock. Themon beeping sound sounded as his fingers typed in each digit or


    letter of the code. After a few beeping sounds resounded from the pad, the door in front of Hayden


    clicked unlocked. As Hayden dragged me through that door, I realized that there were two more doors


    on either side of that door. I shivered, not wanting to know where those doors led.


    To my surprise, there wasn’t a room behind the door that we had just entered. Instead, there were


    stairs that descended downwards. It was darker than the hallway where we were before, and I could


    hardly make out the steps of the stairs. Without a word of exnation, Hayden began his journey down


    the stairs, and I was dragged along with him. My legs shook with each step that I took down the stairs.


    The stress of the situation was getting to me again and the fact that I couldn’t see very well scared me.


    Thest thing I needed in this situation was to fall and roll down these steep stairs.


    Where does this lead?


    After a while of walking down the stairs, I began wondering how far we’ve descended. Does this mean


    that we are now underground?


    As Hayden dragged me down multiple flights of stairs, I was quite certain that we had descended far


    enough for us to be underground which meant that Hayden’s mansion had a hidden underground floor?


    I didn’t feel curious about what I would find there at all. I didn’t want to know anything anymore. Hayden


    came to an abrupt stop, and I almost crashed into him as his powerful arms yanked me down thest


    few steps of stairs. I let out a small cry as I almost lost my bnce. Thankfully, I didn’t fall because


    Hayden made no effort to check to see if I made it alright. He never turned around to check on me for


    the entire walk down here.


    --To be continued…