Chapter 17

Silent. Complete and utter silence is how I would describe this car ride. No one said a single word throughout this entire journey. You could physically feel the tension within the atmosphere. I felt his eyes burning into my back, but I refused to give him the satisfaction of me looking over at him. So instead I just glared out of the car window watching the scenery flash past us, continuing to rub my wrists from when they were bound together, all the while wondering where he was taking me. I was jolted out of my thoughts as the car came to a sudden stop.

"We're here." The man driving the car told Owen as he began to exit the vehicle.

As soon as he was out Owen turned his body to face me. It was a full 10 minutes of him staring at me, me glaring out of the window, and the sound of our breathing before I finally turned around to look at him.

"What do you want Owen?" I ask him in a harsh and irritated voice.

He didn't say anything he just continued to stare at me.

"What do you want? Why am I here." I asked sounding a bit angrier as my short temper started to quickly rise.

"What I want is for you and your little crew to leave London and stay out of what doesn't involve you." He said

"See that's where you're wrong, this does involve us. This involves us in everyway" I told him staring straight into his eyes.

He continued to stare into my eyes when I saw the flash of realization cross over his face.

"Oh, I understand. I understand it quite clearly now." He said with a hint of amusement in his voice.

I just continued to stare at him, not allowing my face to betray the array of emotions I was currently feeling at the moment.

"You're here for her aren't you?" He me.

I didn't respond I just turned back towards the window and continued to glare outside.

"You're not going to get her back you know. She's with me. She belongs to me." He whispered in my ear.

"She does not belong to you and she does not belong with you. She belongs with her family and we will get her back." I hissed at him as I turned back around to face him with a heated glare.

"So I will ask you again why am I here?" I asked him angrily.

"You are here darling, because you have now just become leverage." He told me moving a piece of hair from my face.

I slapped his hand away from my face.

"Do not touch me Owen." I growled at him.

"I see you still haven't changed a bit, not one bit." He said with a smirk on his face.

"Yeah whatever." I told him crossing my arms staring outside.

"Give me your phone." He demanded holding his hand out.

"What?" I asked him.

"Give me the phone?" He told me

"Why?" I asked still not willing to give up the last source of contact I had with everyone else.

"Because, I'm going make a little call to your family, including that little fiancée of yours." He tells me stressing a bit on the word fiancée.

I look at him shocked that he knew about me and Han. I reluctantly hand my phone over to him watching as he scrolls through the contact list until he finds Brian's name. I watch as he hits the call button and puts the phone on speaker.

"Hello Miri, thank god we have been worried sick about you. We've been searching for you like crazy." Brian said sounding frantic and relieved at the same time.

"This isn't Miranda but I'll be happy to relay the message to her for you." Owen said smugly into the phone.

I heard all the background noise on the other side stop. It was so quiet you could probably hear a pin drop.

"Where is my sister Shaw?" Brian demanded, you could hear the anger in his voice start to rise.

"She's right here. Miranda darling say hi." He says into the phone while looking at me.

"Hey guys, don't worry about me I' m fine, okay." I say into the phone trying to reassure them.

Owen takes the phone of off of speaker phone and continues to talk to Brian and the rest of the group. Once he's finished he hangs up the phone and tosses it on the seat. He opens the door and tells the driver something causing him to come back into the car and start driving. I look at him confused.

"You're coming with me." He says.

I look at him as I start to feel a bit nervous hoping that I can find my way out and back to them or that they'll find me. Soon.

A/N: SO SORRY THAT THIS TOOK SO LONG EVERYBODY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR REVIEWS, FOLLOWS, AND FAVORITES. THANK YOU FOR STICKING WITH AND READING THIS STORY. I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY, BUT I WILL TRY AND UPDATE AT LEAST EVERY WEEK OR TWO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. LOVE YOU ALL.

-NICA ARMSTRONG