Stand By Me Darling
Chapter 416: What He Planned

Chapter 416: What He Planned

"What kind of game are you playing?"

Ralph’s hands pointing at her shook a little.

"Dig in, now!"

"Games?" Talia snorted. "I can be honest now that you’ll kill me. That camera is still recording and you’ll make sure my grandpa will watch it, right? Ah! For once I can speak my truth and I feel liberated already!" she was chirpy.

"Ralph," Talia sat hugging her knees. "I can understand your pain, you know... I get why you want to get back at my grandpa... I want to get back at him too. I gave up so much to inherit the Northern Star," she fisted her hands.

"Do you know how many enemies I have because of him? Even you – my cousin... I understand you don’t want to do all these to me... You spent your adult life trying to get back at my grandpa and hurt me... You even went and collected goat urine and what is this... Elephant dung?" She couldn’t help making a dig at him.

Her stomach ached. She rubbed it to soothe herself. She felt alone and scared. She wanted to just sit and cry, but she knew it won’t help her. She wanted to try everything to escape.

"I admire your persistence, and...I understand why you do it all." She nodded her head affirming him. She could see his hand holding the gun slowly getting down and the muzzle wasn’t even pointing at her anymore.

Talia smirked in her heart seeing him looking at her and this time he really wanted to hear her speak.

Even psychopaths like to hear praises of them it seems!

She continued. "He abandoned me when I killed Cyrus and as if he planned it all along, just gave the company to that Arthur! Can you imagine? To a Boswell – the arch-nemesis of the Brunton family for centuries! I bet our ancestors are rolling in their graves" she sighed.

She pretended as if she had acknowledged him as a Brunton and watched the little smile in his eyes by the acknowledgement.

And as he was falling for her words, she searched the ground for anything sharp or heavy to attack him. She found her strength slowly returning and she wanted to make a run for it.

"I didn’t even want a single penny from him. All I asked for was my mum to be acknowledged as the daughter of Jerald Brunton. I begged him and yet he-"

"Really?" seeing the maliciousness returning to Ralph’s eyes, Talia interjected not letting him continue. "That’s terrible! How cruel is he! I should tell you... my grandpa is pretty good at pretending to the public. Do you know he called me ’Purple-eyed monster’ whenever no one else is around?" Talia sniffed a little.

She saw Ralph opening his mouth wanting to say something, but he held back. By now he had completely immersed with Talia’s words as Talia was saying what he wanted to hear – Jerome Brunton is the evilest guy in the world.

She didn’t feel guilty trashing her grandpa who loves her more than anything. She knew her grandpa would want her return to him alive and he wouldn’t mind her speaking ill of him.

Suddenly she saw him smirk and she felt a chill pass through her smile. She decided to stop speaking for now. Speaking too much might backfire since she is speaking lies. She knows she is not a very good liar.

"I’ve an idea. You hate him, right?" he asked and Talia shrugged.

"I do!"

"Want to expose him to the world for who he is?"

"Sure!" she knew it won’t be anything good, but she saw him placing the handgun on the ground and standing up.

She wanted to focus on the handgun, but still in acting mode, she forced herself to follow Ralph.

"Just make a confession..." Ralph squatted beside her with a wide grin.

Talia felt her skin crawl by his closeness, but she endured it. "What confession?"

"That he touched you when you were a kid and that’s why you had to-"

"Okay," Talia tried to smirk but the corners of her lips twitched.

Her heart pounded and her breathing got heavy. She didn’t even want to let him finish the sentence. She couldn’t understand why everything this guy thinks involves s*xual assault. He wants to destroy her reputation by getting her assaulted and now he wants people to think her grandpa actually...

She felt a shiver. There are some things that cannot be done to protect one’s life and this is one of it. Her grandpa might not blame her for it and the world may not believe her words, but still she didn’t want to do such a despicable thing.

"Get prepared. I’ll go get the camera. We can record the video and upload it. The world has to believe it. Want to do a rehearsal..."

He kept on talking and walked to get the camera. Gathering all the strength in her body, Talia lunged and got the gun.

But she was in for a shock. By the weight of the gun, Talia could tell that the gun is not loaded.

It was a trap and I fell for it!

"Ha! I knew it, b*tch! You’re as treacherous as that Jerome!"

Ralph’s rage-filled voice echoed in the cave. Before Talia could run at the exit, she was grabbed by her hair and was thrown on the floor. Ralph picked up the tools he showed her previously and started filling the syringe with some other drug shouting expletives.

"You almost made me believe you, b*tch..."

The scratches in Talia’s body started to bleed and Talia knew she needs to get away as soon as possible if she wants to survive. Her knees were weak and she couldn’t gather the strength to get up, but she managed to stand up and started to run through the tunnel towards the exit. She was almost nearing the mouth of the cave. She saw nothing but darkness in front of her and thought she was staring at the horizon.

A chuckle was heard behind her and she was grabbed once more by her hair and she fell on her butt.

Holding her hair, Ralph dragged her back to the inside of the cave near the fireplace.

Talia screamed at the top of her lungs. She felt her end near and her mind went blank and all she wanted was to scream for the last time.

"Shut up!" he banged her head at the wall of the cave and Talia could feel something wet and warm dripping on her shoulder.

She knew she was losing consciousness and she tried to hold onto anything to hit him with, but nothing came to her grasp.

"I don’t want you dead, Talia. You know what I always wanted to do to you? Hysterectomy!" he said slapping Talia’s cheek to wake her up.

"You cannot become unconscious. You have to see and feel your uterus and ovaries getting snatched out of you... You’ll be the last Brunton! He’ll see you and cry everyday knowing he won’t have grandchildren..."

Talia heard everything he said and she watched him getting one of the tools and he tried to get her legs opened.

NO!!! NO WAY!!!

Talia, who had given up and resigned to her fate, found this unacceptable. She endured him touching her, she endured him hurting her, and she even was willing to let him kill her.

BUT NOT THIS! I WANT KIDS!!

She didn’t know where she got her strength. It was probably the adrenalin. She sprung up. She tried to grab that tool and a scuffle ensued between them.

She never was a violent person and she has never hurt someone till they bleed using her hands. And Ralph was stronger than her and she knew she couldn’t handle him for long.

Ralph tried to plunge that tool in her and Talia didn’t want to die like this. In their scuffle they had ended up near the basin and Talia picked the basin and tipped it on his face. The contents of the basin got spilled on Ralph’s face and his vision got impaired.

He waved the tool randomly and Talia grabbed a surgical scissors and plunged it in his eye.

The cave echoed Ralph’s screams and cusses.

Talia’s hands ended up getting dirty and her hands trembled realising what she has done. But she didn’t want to waste time and tried to stand up. As her knees were weak, she used her hands as a support to get up.

But the ground was slippery and her hands slipped in the excrement. It was then she felt it... Something familiar.

The ring was actually in there!

Talia grabbed the ring and not minding the shit in her hands ran to the exit. She could hear Ralph getting up and he was stumbling around screaming at her to stop.

Talia ran as fast as she can through the tunnel that led to the mouth of the cave. She gulped as she reached the end. Strong wind blew on her face and it was heavily raining sending shivers to her bones. She thought she heard a helicopter, but it very well could be thunder.

Is this abyss in front of me?

She was at least fifty meters above the sea level and the cave was in a cliff. Holding the sides of the cave, Talia tried to look down and it seemed like there was a river flowing down below.

How deep is that river? Will there be rocks? If I jump, will I survive? Oops! I don’t know how to swim!

Talia was not allowed to think as she heard the sound of the gun going off echoing through the tunnel

Gritting her teeth, she jumped down holding her breath. She didn’t know with what courage she jumped down, but the moment she heard the gunshot, she jumped down.

The wind rushed past her and into her eyes along with the rain drops. She didn’t know if she is jumping to her escape from Ralph or from her life itself. Her adrenaline shot up and she screamed.

"F*ck this all!!"

As she was near to the water that was flowing rapidly she thought that was not a good last word to be said about her.

She laughed. "As if someone is recording my last word!"

*splash*

She fell in the water and sank in. She curled to a ball fearing the water might not be deep. But the water was deep enough and it perfectly broke her fall. It was hard for her to hold her breath and she still was hurting at places, but she still was alive. But ...

How do I go up?

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