Free LIKED - A Dark Romance Novel (Story of Dangerous Obsession and Lust) by Diana Quippley

was him, but knowing for sure was a cold reality. He
had murdered Don. Jack had tortured him and killed him in a bloody mess. He had
waited for Gia to come and had taken her too. He was going to torture her too
for playing with him and trying to leave him behind. He was going to do more to
her than he had done to Don and then she was going to end up the same way.
     
    Jack whispered to himself. “Left side first and then the right.”
     
    Gia sucked in a ragged breath and bawled. “Grits … Grits, Jack. Time out.
I want to go home. Grits. Grits. Grits. Please. Please.”
     
    He cleared his throat and said quietly. “It’s too late for that, Gia.”
     
    He closed one door and then the other. They caught this time and the
darkness inside her bag got even deeper.
     
    The driver’s door opened and closed in front of her.
     
     
    ***

As the van started, she had a mental picture of the shape and dimensions
of the vehicle. These vans were only used for painting houses and murdering
woman, she thought. She had shot more than a few scenes inside them. This would
be her last, she thought. It was going to be one take with no chance for
resets.
     
    Wipe one the back wall quickly and reset, she thought as her mind spun away
from her inside the bag. We are going to get another shot of that head
splatter. On my mark.
     
    The van lurched forward and up a slope. She shifted to the side toward
the back and found herself against the metal rise of a wheel well. She had
pictured the back as flat floor and walls for the metal box of the cargo area.
She amended her picture to include the bumps for the back wheels jutting up and
out into the storage space. She couldn’t picture the model of van that was
designed that way.
     
    The van bumped something and stopped. She thought that if they got into
an accident, the police would come. If the van tried to leave the scene, the
other driver would get the plate and report it to the police. The van edged
forward and bumped it again. There was a scrape on the front bumper and grill
and they bounced over the curb.
     
    The van turned left.
     
    It was the gate over the driveway they had hit. Don’s gate swung out
instead of sideways like everyone else’s. The fence was from the 1970’s and had
the locks updated, but not the hardware. The magnet locks were down and Jack
had bumped it open with the van.
     
    When the neighbors saw the gate hanging open toward the street, they
would call the police to complain. The police would find the bloody house, but
they would be gone. They might not find the scene, but would not know Gia was
taken. She had dropped her phone, but it would take them a couple days to
unlock it even if they made doing so a priority. They might go by her house to
question her about Don’s death, but they wouldn’t find anything suspicious
inside that would let them know she was kidnapped.
     
    She didn’t remember seeing the van when she walked up to the house, so
she wasn’t sure where it had been. Maybe by the garage? Getting ready to load
Don’s body before Gia interrupted? Jack knew she was coming though. Or did he?
How did he find out where Don lived?
     
    The production of Southern Sluts might miss her, but two girls had
walked off set the other day. They just put a wig and their costumes on Gia and
killed the characters off with Gia facing away from camera. The assistant
director wasn’t going to be her salvation and he cared more about her than the
rest of LA at this point.
     
    Susan? She might report something. She would see the news about Don and
would report that she dropped Gia off there. That was going to be the
connection. The police would know that she was missing then.
     
    It might be twenty-four hours. Maybe forty-eight. Gia knew from the
dialogue in a couple of her movies that that timeframe was the difference
between when the police were likely to find a living person or a body.
     
    Gia thought, some new actress is going to play me in an episode of