The Sting Of The Bite (Not Finished) by Bri Rose (easy to read books for adults list txt) 📕

Audrey was 7 when her mother died in that horrible accident. She was left alone with only her father who could barely keep a job for more than a few weeks at a time. After her mother died, her father remarried within the month.  The woman as a beast to Audrey, always calling her names, hitting her, and this caused a rebellious streak in Audrey. By the time she reached her Sophomore year of high school, she had already served some time in Juvie for some small things. But what really got to Audrey’s stepmom was the fact that she was sneaking around with her boyfriend and she knew that they were having sex behind her back, and she didn't know how to stop it. So, on her 16 birthday, Audrey’s stepmom picked her up from school and said that they were going to a surprise birthday party for her. Audrey was a little skeptical of it, but she went along for the ride. If only she would have known...

   “Mom, where are we going?”

   “God Audrey, why can't you just let anything be a surprise?”

   Audrey was an average 16-year-old girl. So, of course, she wanted everything here and now. “I need to know so I can text Jack and tell him to meet us there.”

   Now, as you can suspect, Audrey has a boyfriend. And as with any normal teenage relationship, they did it. But the only bad thing is that Audrey's mom walked in on them and they had to stop halfway through. “Audrey, you know how I feel about… Jack,” she stumbled over his name. “This is a private family affair. If your boyfriend shows up, we are leaving and that is a final young lady!”

   Audrey sat back in her seat and watched the scenery fly by. Her phone vibrated in her pocket and she reached into her pocket to get it. It was a text from Jack. It read “Hey baby! Can’t wait to see you. Where can we meet?” Audrey hid the phone from her mom and texted back. “My mom says you can’t come to meet us. But you can come over tonight. I’ll leave my window unlocked so you can get in.” The text message sent, and Audrey's mom saw out of the corner of her eye that she was texting. “Who are you texting dear?”

   Audrey thought for a few seconds before she responded. “It was just grandma. She was wishing me a happy birthday.”

   Audrey's mom smiled and went back to concentrating on the road again. They kept driving and driving until Audrey finally realized that they were nowhere near civilization. She turned to her mother and said “Where exactly are we going, mom? I know you said it was a surprise, but were in the middle of nowhere.”

   Audrey's mother turned to her and said, “Where we are going, no one is ever going to find you. Somewhere that even your stupid BOYFRIEND will never be able to find you!”

   Then she turned back towards the road and kept driving as nothing had ever happened. Audrey was in pure and utter shock. She tried to open the door in hopes that she would be able to escape the car, but it wouldn't budge. So she tried her cell phone hoping that she could call the police, but there was no service, and there wasn't for 30 miles in any direction. So Audrey was forced to sit there and hope for the best.

Audrey and her mother kept driving for another 5 minutes until the car finally came to a stop in the middle of the road. Audrey had not seen another car for miles and knew that there wasn't going to be one. She was all alone out here with no hopes of being found. Her mother turned to her and said, in a very nonchalant voice, “Audrey, I am going to leave you here to die. I will not give you any food, water, or any kind of telecommunication device. I am leaving you out here to die and rot so that no one can have you. I will make up a story about how you thought that your life was so nonmeaningful that you jumped out of the car when we were going over a bridge, fell and drowned. Very believable, I know.”

   She casually turned back to the front of the car, and Audrey was hoping that she would make some kind of noise, meaning that she was kidding, something to signify that it was all a facade, getting revenge for all the times that she had put her parents through hell. But her mother just continued to sit there, staring ahead of her. Audrey started to sit something, but her mother got out of the car and walked around the front of the car. She lifted the hood, pulled her lighter out of her pocket, lit it, and threw it under the hood. She slammed to hoof down, looked at Audrey through the window, smiled an evil smile, and licked the doors. A car pulled up in front of her then, ad Audrey's mom climbed in, and they raced away. Audrey went into panic mode then. She tried to door’s, but they were locked. She tried unlocking them, but the fire had caused some kind of electrical short in the system and she was locked in. Smoke started filling the car, and she had no way to escape, no hope of a chance to see the sun again. The smoke was getting thicker by the minute, and it was getting harder and harder to breathe. Audrey started coughing, and she remembered something that they had taught her in school about fire safety. “The freshest air in a fire is near the floor. Get as low as you can if there is a fire, and you will be able to breathe.” She crawled down under the console, but the air was still thick with smog and smoke. Her head started feeling funny, and she started seeing things. She saw a man walk up to the car and break the window in, reach into her, and before she could think to pull away from him, he had her out of the car and they were running. She saw a black pickup truck off in the distance, but her lungs refused to work. She heard someone say her name before everything went black.

 Audrey woke up to the sun shining through her curtains, the smell of her mom making pancakes down in the kitchen, and the nightmare still fresh on her mind. She sat up in bed but started looking around confused. This wasn't her room. The window was in the wrong spot, the bed on the wrong side of the room. Everything was off. maybe she was still dreaming. She tried to get out of bed, but she found that her feet were tied to the end of the bed. She reached down to test the strength of the restraints, but she found that she was zip-tied to the bed. There was no way that she was getting out of it by herself without a knife or something. Audrey kept pulling on the ties, and she hadn’t realized that someone was standing in the doorway until they chuckled. She was so startled that she screamed. The man just kept standing there, so Audrey started screaming louder, hoping that the neighbors or someone would hear her. But no one came to her rescue. She stopped screaming and took a better look at the man. The recognition hit her like a brick wall. “Damon” was the only thing that she said. He just started smiling wider like he was the happiest man on the planet. But he had just kidnapped her, why would he be smiling like that? Audrey kept staring at him, hoping that he would give her some kind of explanation, but nothing came. He just stood there smiling like he was proud of himself or something. Audrey opened my mouth to say something, but he started before she could get a word out. “Hello, Audrey. You remember me, don’t you?”
“Damon. How could I forget you? You are the one that asked me to go to prom with you last year, and when I told you that I had a boyfriend, you threatened to kill him.”
Damon started smiling evilly, and he took a few steps closer to her. Audrey tried to jump off of the bed to get away from him, but she forgot that she was tied down. The only thing that she managed to do was throw the blanket off of her that had been covering her up. Damon stopped where he was and just stared at her, mouth hanging slack. Audrey felt disgusted and reached to pull the blanket back over her, but Damon stopped her before she could. He grabbed her wrists and held them together in between their bodies, and that was the only space that he left panic was starting to set in, so Audrey did the only thing that she could think of. She started screaming again. Damon looked down at her and waited for her to stop to breath. In that brief pause, he said the most dispiriting thing in the world. “Audrey, you can scream all you want, but no one will ever hear you. We are miles away from civilization so when I fuck you so hard that your lugs will give out and you can't sit for weeks.” Audrey burst into tears, knowing that her hopes and dreams were being crushed.