CHAPTER 10

"He's what?"

"He's dead. You wanted me to make him disappear right?"

"Take him out of state and make sure he never comes back, not to kill him!" Reyna shouted through the phone.

Luke let out a scoff, "What's done is done."

"Annabeth too?"

"…. yes."

Reyna's eyes widened in horror. She was so shocked that the tears wouldn't even fall.

The phone in her hand dropped and clashed to the floor.

Her fingers tugged at her hair, "What have I done?…My gods..." her breathes were shaken. Her whole body shaken.

Percy….

Oh my gods...

Octavian watched at the sidelines as Reyna shook with horrified terror at what she had done. When she dropped the phone to the ground, he caught her when she collapsed.

He secretly loved Reyna, which was why he obeyed her every command and did her dirty work for her. All to get her to the place where she was.

At the top of everything.

He knew she wanted to be at the highest place in society and he swore to help her get there.

So seeing her suffer like this— he knew what he needed to do…what he had to do to make her acknowledge him.

There was one thing standing in the way of Reyna and her dream— Frederick Chase, President of Chase Industries.

Percy's eyes fluttered open.

"Percy! You're awake!"

He turned to see two electric blue eyes staring back at him.

"How did I get here?"

"Someone found you lying in a secluded alleyway and called 911— What happened to you? Did you get mugged?"

"No, I was…."

Percy's eyes shot wide.

"Annabeth.. Annabeth!" He said, trying to sit up and get out, but a sharp pain shot through his body, originating from his lower abdomen, "Damn it."

"I think you need rest, Percy. Nico will be here soon along with everybody else."

He shook his head and reached out to her arm, "No, Thalia. Annabeth..." he let out a groan, "Please..."

"Annabeth? I heard she's at the Beauregard hotel. I thought you guys broke up. You want me to call her here?"

Percy became even more frantic and tried to get out of the bed.

"Nurse! I need a nurse here!"

"I need to—…get to her!" His fist smashed against the bed railing. His teeth clenched.

A bunch of nurses came in and tried to hold Percy down.

They must have given him some kind of anesthetic because he was taken back into the darkness.

…against his will.

Annabeth opened her eyes. Her head felt it was being pierced by a thousand needles.

Had she been drugged again?

Her mind cleared further and she realized she was sitting in a chair with her wrists zip tied to the steel arm rests. She looked around and saw that she was in the middle of a room. It was dimly lighted, but Annabeth knew it was some kind of abandoned warehouse she was being kept in.

A few moments later, Luke and one other dark haired man walked in. Their footsteps echoed through the whole metal warehouse.

"Ah, Annabeth darling, you're awake!" Luke said to her with a lucid smile as he came closer.

Luke took her chin with his forefinger and thumb and pulled her face close to his, "You look sick, babe." His voice sounded eerily genuine.

He motioned to the other man beside him, "Don't worry— Ethan here will help you. He knows how to make you feel better. With his skill, I have been able to sedate and control the most vicious of girls." His smile creeped wider, "It's a valuable skill which nobody thinks possible. Do you know what it is, Annie?"

The blonde didn't answer, but simply narrowed her eyes at Ethan then at Luke.

Luke looked back with that sneering smirk of his, "… Hypnotism."

Annabeth's grey eyes widened and her fingers gripped tighter around the metal arm rests of the chair.

"Now for someone so calm as you— I wouldn't need to do this." Luke continued, "But you're quite renowned for your genius intelligence, my dear, so I have no choice but to take precautionary measures….that is, in case you have it in that head of yours to make an escape."

The blonde glared at the man with her cold, silver eyes.

Luke simply started chuckling and leaned over Annabeth so that his face was ever so close to hers.

"Brainwash, Annabeth... It may only have been possible in movies, but Ethan here can actually make it happen." His mouth dipped to her ear, "All your memories washed down the drain…"

Annabeth felt something sharp embed into the skin of her neck.

Shit, they were drugging her again..

Her breathes came fast and short and she tried to struggle uselessly against the ties on her wrists, but whatever Luke gave her, it started to kick in and soon her body became limp. Her mind—cloudy.

She barely saw the blurred image of a dark haired man coming closer to her. Her eyes went drowsy. A hand held her chin in place so that her eyes were forced to meet what was in front of her.

Two dark pits of eyes, swirled around and around until everything turned into darkness.

Her memories…they were like pictures drifting off away from her and she couldn't reach them.

Every one of them starting to wash away…

She struggled—battled the current in her mind wiping everything… If nothing, there was one memory she didn't want to lose..

That memory….

She needed to keep it.

She reached and reached— caught it

and the rest disappeared….

Luke watched as Ethan concentrated and did so again. Sweat beaded his brow. And after what seemed like hours, he clapped his hands in front of her and her head hung low.

"Did you make it work?"

"It was harder on this one, Luke. Her mind is strong. I don't know if I got it all."

Luke's lips turned up in a smirk, "Well, it doesn't matter. As long as she doesn't remember most of her life, she's going to be lost forever."

He leaned closer to her, "And she won't escape me not now...not ever"

A/N:

In the next few chapters, things are gonna get uber intense and exciting. Do you guys want a preview? Because I'm feeling pretty generous today, Lol.
Okay, okay I'll give it to you. Goodness, no need to yell :)

Here's a small snippet of the next chapter:

The driver got his keys and went over to his taxi car parked out in the lot and got in. He put the keys into the ignition and started the engine. He looked up and was about to start the car when he saw a man standing in his way. The taxi driver poked his head out of the window.

"Hey, you over there. Get out of the way!"

The hooded man looked up and the driver flinched back a bit from the striking glare the man gave him. All in a blink of an eye, the man had come up to the driver's side of the car and had a strong hold of the driver's neck. The driver choked from his steel grip. The man let go of his neck and yanked the driver up by his collar,

"I'm not going to ask this again so listen. Very carefully—" His hood lifted slightly and in the shadow— two unrelenting green eyes pierced down at the taxi driver.

"Where is Annabeth Chase?"

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