There was this sound that just kept going on and on drawing me from my dreamless slumber. The sound was persistent, tormenting me. I fought to stay in that peaceful place I was in but it seemed like the sound didn't want to hear of it. It was sharp and loud breaking through my walls and causing an ache in my head. Finally I groaned wanting it to stop but it didn't.

birp! birp! birp! It went on.

My eyes unwillingly peeled open to be blinded by a sharp light. They closed on their own accord before opening again. There was a sharp pain in my heard causing me to groan loudly.

Where was I? I was confused.

I looked around and my eyes settling on the heart monitor which caused so much noise.

Where was I?

I looked around the room to recognize it as a hospital room. My eyes wondered off to the small bed I lay on and indeed it was a hospital bed then it all came crushing back. The car crash. I exhaled loudly.

"Hello ma'am, finally you're awake." A voice came from besides my bed causing me to turn and see a tall man with dark silky hair sitting right besides my bed. He seemed oddly familiar with his black leather jacket and shirt.

"Would you like some water?" he asked politely.

I tried answering his question but as I opened my mouth nothing came out so I ended up nodding as he got off his chair to get me a glass of water. He was tall, like really tall with a nicely built body. He handed me the glass of water and I took it and drank it eagerly before clearing my throat and say a polite thank you.

'' Good to see you awake, you gave us quite a scare."

I looked at him perplexed, what was he talking about, who us?

"Oohh fuck!" I heard myself say after a few seconds as my mind came back to me.

Rafael, Loala, Tom, The house.

My hands quickly flew to my stomach to find my baby bump still there.

"The doctor said the baby is fine." the man said again. "You also fine just a few scratches here and there, nothing fatal." he continued smiling.

I nodded my head not knowing what to say.

''Let me call for the doctor," he finally said standing and walking out leaving me to process everything.

So I got in a car accident, my baby was fine, I was fine but the people I was running away from somehow found me, well I was fucked. It seemed like the universe didn't want to give me a break Lord knows I needed one. I closed my eyes and opened them trying to contemplate on what to do. I didn't want to go back to that house.

I didn't want to go back to him.

I had heard enough of his abuse, I was done and just couldn't deal no more.

The man which I figured was one of the guards came in with the doctor whom I was familiar with.

"Mrs Vintage, you are finally awake."

"Please don't call me that, "I said firmly to the doctor causing him to stare at me nervously and nod.

"How are you feeling?'' the doctor asked.

"My head is aching," I said honestly.

"That is to be expected. You took a blow in the head when the car turned around but it's nothing serious besides that everything is fine and you will be on your way home soon." The doctor said looking happy and content with the words he was delivering, if only he knew.

Was it bad that I wished as if would have died in the car crash, I know it was selfish to say that looking at the fact that I was carrying a baby but I was just tired. I was tired of this life, it seemed like it had nothing good for me in store. All I did was suffer. I turned to look at the guard.

"Can you please just give us a minute," I said politely.

He looked at me for a while before nodding and walking out.

Making sure that the door was closed I started talking.

" Doctor what would you say if I told you that I was kidnapped, What would you say if I told you that I was beaten and raped?'' I asked the doctor.

He blinked once, twice and shifted on his feet looking uncomfortable before clearing his voice and saying "Miss Harley I have other patients to get to, I'm sorry but I'm needed elsewhere. Get some rest and you will be free to go home by this afternoon." He turned around and walked to the door.

'' Wait please don't go, can I at least borrow your phone. It's the least you could do,"

The doctor looked around the room nervously before sighing and walking to me as he took out his phone from his black pants.

I took it quickly and dialled the number of my best friend from high school only to find that it was disconnected, I tried another friend to find it also disconnected before I finally dialled one last number

The phone rang twice and I almost laughed when I heard a voice from the end of the line.

"Hello," The squawky voice seemed like music to my ears.

"Mom! .Mom I'm so happy to hear your voice, please Mom I need your help,"

"Harley you stubborn child how many times have I told you to stop calling me that awful name. You just don't listen do you?" She scorned me and it was just like that time at the ball again.

" I am so sorry, " I said lowly, the thing is it sounded wrong calling her by her name, as much as she didn't like me she was the only mother I had and no matter how many times I could talk bad about her she was still my mom and the only person left to whom I was related to.

"I need your help please." I said feeling the tears pool at my eye balls.

"Why does everything need to be about you Harley, I also need help, I kind of ran your fathers company to the ground. It was not my fault though I just couldn't help travelling around the world and buying the finest things. Oohh I cleaned all the money in your bank account and took your trust fund, sorry I needed it more and it was just so easy faking your signature."

"I don't care about the money mom, I just need you to come fetch me I'm in town at the hospital, pl..." I said but she cut me off before I could finish my sentence.

"Aahh, Harley what have you gotten yourself into, has that sexy man you were with the last time I saw you left you. I am not surprised, you could never keep them." she giggled before continuing " Any ways you just have to find someone else girlfriend because I am far away from the city and I can't just leave the resort to fetch you. Oohh and by the way I sold the house. I had to move out of that place people just kept talking about how I was broke and you know how people get when they hear that you are bankrupt they just gossip and gossip. Anyways it was nice chatting with you girlfriend, we should do this sometime, I have to go in the sonar now, toddles." and she hung up just like that.

I wanted to cry but I didn't have the energy, that pain when you realize that you are all alone in the world with everything you love being taken away. I was pregnant, I didn't have a home and I was rejected. I gave the doctor back his phone. He took it and quickly left. The guard entered the room and took his seat besides my bed.

My world was crushing and burning, and there was nothing I could do about it.

The day passed on with me not speaking a single word. Nurses came in and out doing this and that. By three in the afternoon I was being pushed sitting on a wheel chair through the hospital halls with the guard following me behind.

A day had passed since my accident and the doctor said we should call him if anything about my health changed over the next days. We took the elevator down to the ground floor where a black tinted Range rover waited.

I was amazed that Rafael had sent one guard to guard me. The guard helped me in the car, in a few minutes we were off to that hell of a house. I had succumbed to a dark place in my mind, I was looking but not seeing, listening but not hearing. It was like I was a ghost, just barely existing.

We reached the private airport and took a private jet. Three hours later we were getting off that plane. A black jeep was waiting for us and it took us to the house. I watched the sun set, the sky slowly turning dark as the car sped off. The guard I was with at the hospital seemed concerned as he kept stealing glances from the front seat thinking I didn't see him.

The gates opened as we approached and we drove through up the long drive way. It was raining, cold and cloudy. As we entered the garage my heart started drumming hard. I didn't know what to expect inside that house. I had ran away and I just had a feeling that something bad was waiting for me inside, I couldn't help but be scared and nervous.

The guard parked the car, jumped off to open my door and helped me get off. He led the way to the house as I followed slowly cautious of my surroundings.

We walked up the steps to the hall.

'' You can go to your room ma'am on the west wing." the guard said politely.

I nodded my head and walked slowly through the living room. I could hear voices, Rafael's voice to be precise from the dining room and sadly I had to walk past the dining room to get to the steps which would take me up to my room. I took a deep breath and put one foot in front of the other. My heart beating so fast I thought it would explode, there I was walking straight to the lion's den.