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Chapter Twenty-Three: The Final Solution.

Marking off another day that she had been trapped in this hellhole, Caitlyn wondered if she'd ever get out of this room; her prison since they had arrived at the deserted house in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing for miles around them except the woods that she could see from her window, not that she could get very close to it since she was chained to the far wall by her leg; it had been attached as soon as they arrived.

The room was virtually empty and the old faded blue wallpaper that had started to peel away from the wall in places; the walls were no better and it was clear the place had been abandoned for a long time. Staring at the marks on the wall that she had been making, Caitlyn's stomach turned at how long she'd been trapped by the mad man; a part of her fearing that she might die here.

There was no doubt in her mind that Alvin hadn't given up on her, he was her uncle and had known her since she was a child; he would want to find her more than anyone and she prayed that he would find her soon. Leaning her head back against the wall, Caitlyn slowly opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling wondering what would become of her if no one ever discovered where Edward was holding her. Everything that she had ever known, her father, her mother, Jay, they were gone now and it was all because of her; she was the reason that they had met their ends.

Her father had died at Edward's hands trapped in a basement before being dumped by the side of the road, Jay had been shot at close range by Edward and she could not imagine how he had died while her mother had met her end before her in the same basement that her father had died. The sound of the door opening made her eyes snap open and she turned her attention to the man that was the cause of all her problems; she glared at him wishing that it was him that was dead.

"I brought you some dinner," Edward announced with a smile, completely ignoring the look that Caitlyn offered him and moving to set the tray of food before it. There wasn't much on the tray and he had included a bottle of water for her, he would need to go shopping soon since the limited supplies that he had brought with them were starting to run low.

Struggling against the chains that held her, Caitlyn knew what she'd do if she could get her hands free; she had to get out of here, she didn't intend to die in this hellhole with this lunatic, who thought they could play happy families. Caitlyn had even heard his mumblings of abducting another woman and forcing her to be his wife; he would give Caitlyn a new mother and sibling was what he said.

"If only you'd behave then I wouldn't have to keep you tied up like this," Edward tutted shaking his head, the chains had left her wrists raw from all her tugging on them and he frowned at the marks not wanting her to hurt herself. In the time that they had been here, Caitlyn had resisted him at every turn and fought with him when he was just trying to give her the life that should have been hers to begin with.

Caitlyn pulled her arms away from him as he reached for them, she didn't want him touching her and she glared with all her might; she felt more like an angry kitten than anything else. Nothing she did seemed to make him realise that whatever little fantasy that he had in his head about them being a happy family wasn't going to happen.

The damage had been done and she would never forgive him for what he had done, Caitlyn didn't know how he could expect her to forget what he had done; there were people dead and he had been the one to take their lives. Ignoring her attempt to pull away from him, Edward took one of her hands and eyed the reddened skin that had been caused by the chains; his thumb brushing against it making Caitlyn glare at him.

"It appears that they've called off the search for you, we'll be able to leave Illinois soon enough," Edward told her pleasantly, a smile on his face at the thought of starting afresh; they would leave behind this wreck of a house and they would start anew somewhere that they could be free. He'd been planning it out carefully, his main idea being to leave the USA completely and head over the boarder to Canada; start afresh there and no one would ever be able to find them there.

Caitlyn looked horrified at the idea, she stared at Edward knowing that if the search had been called off then there was no one looking for her anymore; her stomach sinking at the thought of the people she loved giving up on her. Surely there was no way that Alvin would abandon her to this fate, he would not just allow her to remain here with Edward; he knew what the man was capable of and she was his niece.

"It'll be okay then. We can leave this place and go somewhere nicer. I was thinking that we cross the boarder and head North or we could go South if you prefer," Edward stated knowing either would not be easy but it would grant them both freedom and they wouldn't have to be looking over their shoulders all the time.

Grabbing the plastic spoon from the tray that he had brought in with him, Caitlyn eyed the pointy end ignoring Edward's rambling about their happy future. He was crouched down beside her just within reach and she knew what she had to do, even if she couldn't free herself from the chains then there was only one way to free herself of him.

Gripping the spoon in her hand, Caitlyn tried to keep her arm steady and she prayed that this would work; her hold on the spoon not letting up, her hand moving swiftly to ram the blunt end of the plastic spoon into Edward's collarbone. He stumbled back grasping the spoon, his eyes wide as he realised what his own daughter had done before he backhanded her across the face sending her to the floor.

The junction between his neck and his right shoulder burned and he held onto the spoon not wanting to dislodge it in case it made the situation worse; he moved to his feet and stared down at Caitlyn who was looking back at him. The left side of her face red from where he had slapped her but all Edward could feel was the rage that had started to build inside of him because she had tried to kill him.

Storming out of the room, he headed for the bathroom to have a look at the damage and see what he could do to fix it himself before he would come back and deal with Caitlyn. Squeezing her eyes shut, Caitlyn tried to fight back the tears that threatened to fall and she knew that whatever happened next that she would go down fighting; she wasn't going to let him walk away from this.

It was dark outside when Edward returned, the area where Caitlyn had stabbed him was covered and she glared at him in the low light; she pressed her back against the wall knowing that this was it. Moving forward Edward dodged the kick that she aimed at him and grabbed a hold of her leg, the look of terror on her face as she struggled against him trying to free herself and keep him away from her making him even more annoyed.

Flailing her other leg out to try and kick him, Caitlyn felt the tears start to fall knowing that this would be how she died; her hands flying to claw at his face wanting to leave marks on him that he'd always see. Edward gritted his teeth ignoring the burning sensation in his shoulder, his hands holding Caitlyn down as she struggled against him; her fingers scratching at his eyes as his hands reached for her neck.

"We could have been happy," Edward snarled under his breath, his eyes focusing on her terror filled face knowing that she would get what she deserved for betraying him like this. Everything had been in hand and they could have left this place in time, they could have been truly Father and daughter but that was clearly not going to happen.

Caitlyn had defied him at every turn and now she betrayed him by stabbing him like this, she could have killed him and then where would they have been. Her mouth moved with pleas for her life but Edward couldn't hear them, his own rambling taking over as he stared her in the eyes and saw the moment that she truly realised that he was going to kill her here.

"Now you shall know why I am a monster," Edward spat, a madness in his eyes that Caitlyn had not seen before her hands moving to grab onto his own and trying to pull them away from her throat. Black spots danced before her eyes and Caitlyn gasped for breath, her face turning red and slowly her vision started to fade; the last thing that she saw before she passed out was the man that dared to call himself her father staring down at her.

Only when Caitlyn was unconscious did Edward release her, his breathing heavy as he gazed down at her unconscious body before he moved to stand. A smile forming on his face knowing that Caitlyn's nightmare was only just truly beginning.

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