I know last chapter I said that there were only about two more chapters left, but I've decided to extent the story a little longer! Huzzah!

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The first thing I noticed when I came to was that I was exhausted. I felt so drained. I tried to lift my arm to rub my eyes, but found out that I could not. I opened my eyes fully and looked down at myself. I gasped at the sight of my body being bound by thick rope to a chair. My arms felt bruised and they had the tingling feeling people get when their arms have fallen asleep. I looked around the room. My memory was a bit fuzzy, but I knew where I was. Julius had done this to me. I struggled to untangle myself, but found that I had no energy to struggle. Realization dawned on me. I was duped. My heartbeat increased as I looked around for Shun. I didn't want to call out to him, since Julius wasn't in the room and I feared that he would hear me. I craned my neck to look behind me and gasped. Shun was tied up to a wooden chair similar to and had duck tape over his mouth.

"Shun." I whispered, trying to get his attention. I struggled to turn the seat around, but I was once again troubled by the fact that I had no stamina. I called out to him, my voice rising each time. I felt my blood run cold at the thought that he might be dead. I was about to call again, when suddenly a hand clamped down over my mouth. I looked up to see Julius grimacing down at me.

"Your voice is so annoying." He said and let go of my mouth. I glared at him, despite the fact that I was trembling with fear. He smiled at me and gave my head a small pat. I winced.

"He's not dead, if that is what you're thinking." I let out a breath of relief. "That is, he isn't dead yet." He smirked and ruffled my hair.

"What did you do?" I snarled. He laughed.

"You really don't know? I thought you were smarter than that, Alice. Isn't it obvious?" He questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"You drugged us." I whispered, horrified by the thought. He clapped his hands sarcastically.

"Very good stuff, that muscle relaxant. You were fast asleep, even when I tied you up. And now that you're awake, you can't do a thing." I struggled frantically, trying to get myself free of these binds. Julius clucked his tongue and wagged his finger at me.

"That won't do it. Besides, you can't scream. We're in the middle of nowhere. So why don't you stop struggling, shut up, and let me have my fun?" He asked. He walked over to Shun and grabbed him by the hair.

"Don't hurt him! Please!" I begged. Julius gave Shun a hard shake.

"Wake up, you little troll." He sneered, shaking him harder. Shun's eyes snapped open as he took in his surroundings. He tried to speak, but realized his mouth was sealed shut by tape. His eyes showed anger, curiosity, relieve, and fear all at the same time as he stared at me.

"Now that you're up, my fun can commence." He let Shun go and walked over to me. He towered over me with a menacing aura. I looked at him with hate. We'll get out of this. Shun will find away. I reasoned with myself. Suddenly, Julius's hand came up and slapped me hard across the face. The sudden force of it made my head turn. Tears pricked my eyes from the sudden stinging pain and the shock. I had never been hit before, especially not my face. I could hear Shun screaming my name, even through the tape. The room was silent; the only sound was Shun's heavy breathing. My breath was ragged as I tried to compose myself. He wouldn't get the better of me.

"I hate you. You look too much like her, that hussy you called a mother." He yanked my hair, making me cry out in pain. Shun could be heard thrashing about. I knew he could only last so long. The drugs weren't out of our systems yet. Julius bent down in front of me and glared at me with revulsion.

"You're pathetic." He spat. He shook his head angrily. "You're pathetic." He repeated with much more hate in his voice. "You drag your boyfriend, who wants to get in your pants so badly that he actually agrees, to Russia where he can't even speak a word of the language, so you can look for your dead parents' killer, a stupid idea from the start. And once you manage to find him, you are stupid enough to trust him! I mean, didn't your whore of a mother and idiot of a father ever teach you not to judge a book by its cover? Oh wait. Your parents didn't make it that long to teach you, did they? So that means your old fart of a grandfather is the one to blame. Jeez, your whole family is pitiful. You couldn't just leave it alone, could you? No, you had to be little miss detective Alice. Did you even consider the dangers that might have come your way? More importantly, did you ever consider your boyfriend's feelings? No, I bet you didn't, because you're a bratty little bitch. Now, you're stuck here, waiting to see what it's in store for you. I could do whatever I wanted right now and no one could stop me. You know, what makes me the angriest is the fact that you can't even comprehend the complicated life I had. You've had it so easy that you can't even look at both sides of the story. You jump to the conclusion that I killed your parents, with no facts at hand. Maybe they really did die by accident. Maybe the car company that manufactured your parent's car screwed up on the breaks and that's why the crashed. Did you check the company's history? No, of course you didn't. It had to be me, of course, because I was jealous of your parents who always rubbed in my face their happiness. Isn't that right? You make me sick, you little shit. You don't know anything."

He stopped and turned around. I felt my mouth go dry. His words jumbled around in my head. He turned back around and faced me with a cruel smile. "Of course, if you did this all on instinct, then your instinct would be dead on. I did kill Andrew and Amelia. I killed them and you can't do a damn thing about it. I killed them and they deserved it. I tried to kill you, but I failed. But you were kind enough to show up on a silver platter. How nice." He turned and walked into the kitchen.

Tears streamed down my face at his confession and harsh words. A broken sob escaped my lips. What he said, well, most of it, was right. I had been stupid, and now I was going to die, just like my mother and father. I looked up to see Shun working at his rope frantically; angrily. I looked down at my lap when I heard footsteps coming from the hallway. A chair was seated opposite of me. Julius sat down and pulled out a Swiss army knife, similar to Harrison's.

"I got this for my seventeenth birthday. It came with two others. I gave one to your father and the other one to my close friend."

"Harrison." I interrupted. I shouldn't have, but I did. He nodded.

"Andrew took my beloved away from me. And Harrison took his side! I hated those two. I even blackmailed Harrison for betraying me. He lost his inheritance and he was disowned from his parents. Last I heard, he was a butler and he was trying to kill you. The brilliant part of this scheme was getting Harrison to think Andrew blackmailed him, not me. Amelia left me for that clown. I tried to kill them numerous times. They were very careful, so it was difficult, but I finally got the job done. Except, somehow, you managed to survive. But, you've changed everything. Now, I can get rid of the Gehabichs. Permanently."

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