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The Runaway

Author: Chocolate Fiend
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-04 01:10:42

Carson brings me tea and breakfast in bed. He doesn’t let me stand up and helps me when I finally need to use the washroom.

I look at him, confused as to why he’s so dedicated to helping me.

“Chloe,” he says while peeling an orange for me, “why don’t you divorce him?”

“It’s not that easy.” I say, “he won’t agree. And ever since the first time he’s become obsessive. If I want a divorce I probably have to trick him. But it’s hard to do with April around. She makes him paranoid.”

I accept an orange slice he offers me and take a bite.

Then I ask, “do you need to go to work?”

“I took a few days off.”

“Where are we?”

“My friend’s summer home. Tom shouldn’t be able to track us here.”

I still, my body trembling lightly as I ask, “does he know we’re together?”

Carson watches me. Then he breathes, “he probably knows. But he doesn't know where I am and I have an excellent reputation in the medical community so I’ll be fine even if I lose my position at the hospital.”

“I don’t want you to struggl
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  • Bound by Madness    The Meeting

    TOM’S POV“Did you get what I asked for?” Tom asked Hendrix as Hendrix drove them towards the company.Tom needed to grab a contract for a business dinner later that night. After picking it up, he’d meet Chloe for the first time since the vacation house. Anna’s fiancé, Victor, was hosting the meeting at his office.Tom didn’t mind them having the home-field-advantage. He couldn’t imagine what they could have to use against him.Tom was flicking through his phone when Hendrix answered, “I did sir. It’s in the bag.”Tom nodded. He grabbed the bag and pulled out the velvety silk covered bracelet box. He opened it and paused.“Why is this green?” He asked.Hendrix looked into the rear-view mirror, “you asked for something Mrs. Hayden would like. She likes green.”“She likes pink.” Tom said, somewhat annoyed, “and she doesn’t like daisy’s. What’s with this design?”Hendrix hesitated. April liked the green and she liked the daisy’s. Isn’t that who he intended to gift this to?“If I give thi

  • Bound by Madness    Proof

    I shift. I try to sit up but he holds me down and pulls me closer.“I don’t like when you run away from me,” he breathes.“How did you get in here?” How did he know where I was?“Have you been eating?” He ignores my question. His hand lowers to my stomach.Again, I try to break free of his grasp. I have to shake harder but I finally manage and sit up. I turn on the side table light and turn back to look at him.He lounges beside me, rubbing his eyes a little at the sudden light. He shakes his head and looks up at me.“What are you doing here?” I ask in a hard voice. I try, but fail, to control the panic starting to seize my body.“I missed you,” He let the hand still resting on my stomach lightly play with the fabric covering my body. “I know you don’t like hospitals. I’m not mad.”His voice remains unexpectedly smooth.How can he be this calm? I ran away with another man. He should be…A new thought takes over my mind. I look around the room as if there may be answers as I ask, “wher

  • Bound by Madness    The Runaway

    Carson brings me tea and breakfast in bed. He doesn’t let me stand up and helps me when I finally need to use the washroom.I look at him, confused as to why he’s so dedicated to helping me.“Chloe,” he says while peeling an orange for me, “why don’t you divorce him?”“It’s not that easy.” I say, “he won’t agree. And ever since the first time he’s become obsessive. If I want a divorce I probably have to trick him. But it’s hard to do with April around. She makes him paranoid.”I accept an orange slice he offers me and take a bite.Then I ask, “do you need to go to work?”“I took a few days off.”“Where are we?”“My friend’s summer home. Tom shouldn’t be able to track us here.”I still, my body trembling lightly as I ask, “does he know we’re together?”Carson watches me. Then he breathes, “he probably knows. But he doesn't know where I am and I have an excellent reputation in the medical community so I’ll be fine even if I lose my position at the hospital.”“I don’t want you to struggl

  • Bound by Madness    Retribution

    TOM’S POVTom paced the kitchen of his new home, lost in thought. The home staff, Hendrix, and April lined up nervously watching him. Uneasy side glances to one another. Biting lips and trembling hands. Restlessly wondering who would be the first to crack“What happened?” He finally asked.He’d asked the question 50 times on the ambulance ride to the hospital. He’d felt his heart shatter with every word from the doctor’s had said.Malnourished? Rotten food? Dehydrated? Bruises on her wrists and ankles?The baby was now in a more critical condition.The stuttering voices of the shaking staff never formed full sentences.“WHAT HAPPENED?!” He bellowed. They all flinched back.Her voice shaken and showing true concern, April stepped forward.“W-wh-when you were gone…. Mrs. Yana—” The head housekeeper looked sideways at April with wide, warning eyes. April met this side stare and continued, “Mrs. Yana informed me that Mrs. Hayden refused to eat in protest. She said you’d punish the staff f

  • Bound by Madness    Fury

    I refuse to speak. He has a camera.“How did she call you?” Tom’s voice was low and menacing.“We found this—” April walks in with a burner phone. My heart stops. How did she find it?But when Tom takes it and looks at it, I see it’s a decoy. Meant for their story. They don’t know about my phone. Fine. So long as I’m not going to be assaulted, just divorce me. If he’d rather be cheated on than to be amicably separated, that’s his choice.Tom examines it for a bit, running through messages that are either imaginary or briefly reading prearranged texts. I don’t know which.Tom throws the phone to the floor and then looks at the men begging forgiveness.“Take them to the cabin. Let them be eaten by animals.” Tom orders and a group of men in suits grab the men as they thrash and argue.They yell, “Mrs. Hayden!”“You said this wouldn’t happen!”“You promised!”“Mrs. Hayden!”“We did what you said—stop him!”“Mrs. Hay—”Tom turns directly to me, his cold eyes hard and emotionless.“Everyone

  • Bound by Madness    Rotten Food

    I am tied to the bed in the master bedroom of the otherwise entirely barren house and abandoned. My screams and cries go unheard. By the third day, when I think I’m finally about to die due to dehydration, the door finally opens.April and Hendrix saunter inside.“Oh, my back hurts,” she moans, putting a hand on her back, “he had so much pend up frustration…. I shouldn’t have let him go so long without.”My mouth feels dry and my throat cracked. I want to ask for water but I can’t. My lips threaten to crack and bleed if I open my mouth.April sits on the side of the bed and smiles at me. She puts a hand on my stomach and says, “Nothing can happen to my beautiful baby.”Then Hendrix walks over holding a thermos and puts it to my lips. I can smell whatever’s inside and it’s vile. I want to protest but too fast he pours it into my throat.Although—even starving—I can taste its rancid flavour, I let myself swallow it because my alternative is choking.I gag, though, wanting it to stop but

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