Only His Princess Chapter 10
"Duncan, are you sure you can get me in there?" I asked nervously, while gesturing toward my second story bedroom.
"Sure, it'll be a cake walk." He answered, smirking at the window.
He hoisted me up and somehow lifted and threw me into the window, where I landed on my bed, which was just below the window I'd told him to go in. I was going to steal some clothes and what not, and then throw the bag down and then jump down myself. I looked at all the clothes in my closet and took my skinny jeans and jean shorts and skirts and put them in a duffel bag, next I went to my dresser and took out my normal tee shirts and packed them too. I shoved my make-up, toothbrush, and hair brush in from my bathroom also, then just as I was about to throw the bag out, my door opened.
"Oh, honey I knew you'd come back. You're father however doubted that, said you'd lost all common sense now, and that he would call the police, only you weren't our child anymore." My mother said, while walking into the room, and sobbing slightly.
"Oh, mommy, I'm not running away from you. But why are you putting up with him hitting you?" I asked, wondering how my beautiful, strong mother had subjugated herself to this kind of treatment.
"Look, honey, I love your father, maybe not all parts of him, but I love him, and I'm not going to leave him. I want you to leave though, because you love Duncan, and I would never keep you away from something or someone you loved." She said walking towards me and pulling me close.
"Mommy…" I said before I heard a door open.
My mother pulled away from me instantly, and widened her eyes, "Leave Courtney now!" My mother said before stuffing some bills in my hand, "take care of yourself baby." She said looking at me sadly before I heard my father call for her, and she winced, but tried to play it off.
I threw the bag down at that, and jumped down instantly afterward, and before I knew it, I was sobbing into Duncan's shoulder as he carried me to the van and then drove us to the park where he parked and pulled me into his lap.
"Princess, what happened that was so bad? Did your dad come into the room when you were in there? You know all you had to do was scream and I'd have been up there in a second." He looked completely concerned for me, and it almost made me want to cry more, because he was looking at me like my mother had been before I jumped out the window.
"No, my mom was in there." I said in between sobs.
"Did she not want you to leave? 'Cause you know he would've have hurt you." He spoke into my hair while brushing his hand through it.
"I know. She wanted me to leave, because she didn't want to keep me from anything I loved. But she said she wouldn't leave because she loved my father. How can you love a monster like that?" I asked crying a little as her wincing popped into my head once more.
Duncan simply hugged me tighter and we sat like that until the darkest hour, when he finally decided we'd been here long enough. He held my hand the entire way to the house, and kept constantly checking on me. When we got back to the house, he pulled me into his arms and carried me back to his room, because there was no party tonight, because Geoff had decided to have some alone time with his girlfriend. Duncan softly put me down on the bed, and plopped down beside me.
"Are you sure you want to be here? Because if you want to go home, I guess you could…" He said trailing off, because he saw the worried look on my face.
"Oh, no! I don't regret leaving; I just wish my mom would too. But she's a grown woman and I guess she knows what she's doing." I sighed and curled onto my side looking at Duncan.
"Look, it's going to be okay, no matter what happens, that is where your mother wants to be, where she's going to be happiest, and for right now, I suppose that's best. But bring that beautiful smile I love back onto your gorgeous face." He said while whispering into my ear.
I smiled at him; he was the most amazing guy I'd ever met. He always knew how to cheer me up and make me smile, even when I really shouldn't be smiling. I snuggled closer to him, and felt his arms wrap around my waist. I loved the few moments that we were able to be like this.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom, I'll be back in a few okay, you should change while I'm gone." Duncan said stretching and getting off the bed.
I got out of the bed, and pulled out one of the few pajama's I'd been able to pull out before my mom walked in, but then I saw the pile of bills, they were all ones. A total of ten dollars, that's all my mother thought her daughter was worth. I changed and then began crying into the pillows. And that's exactly what I was doing when Duncan walked in.
"Sweetheart, what's wrong?" Duncan asked, pulling my face out of the pillow, so I could look at his adorable face.
"I'm worth ten dollars to her, ten fricken' dollars." I cried out.
"Oh, Princess, I'm sorry, but if it makes you feel better, you're worth all the money in the world, and then some to me."
I smiled at him, and then after cuddling up to him and talking for a few more minutes, I fell into a peaceful sleep, still thinking of those wonderful words.
'You're worth all the money in the world, and then some to me'
I'm almost certain I slept with a smile on my face, and my heart full of love.