Jack In The Box

Chapter 17

“Do you know how to use a gun?” Jackson asked me as he pushed the curtains away to look outside the window.

“No.”

“Obviously you can use a knife to save your life, right?”

What the hell was with his rhymes?

“Yeah. I guess.”

He opened the kitchen cabinets, the ones that were stocked with too many jars. He reached out for one and pulled out a gun from it. A gun out of a large empty cookie jar.

I stared at him appalled.

“What? I keep my guns where no one can find them.”

He handed me a butcher knife. “Take this, and go to my room. Stay hidden until I tell you otherwise.”

“But...”

“If I don’t come for you within ten minutes, stay hidden.” He instructed. His expressions told me this was a serious matter.

Whoever was outside the door could be dangerous.

On second thought, Jackson had always been the king of threatening, killing and harassing people. How bad could be the person standing outside compared to Jack?

I quickly scrambled into the bedroom, shut the door behind me and crawled beneath the bed, clenching knife in my fist in a death grip. My hands were literally shaking.

There was no sound coming from outside and that stressed me to no end. Why wasn’t Jack speaking to someone? Did that intruder silently bludgeon Jack in the head and dragged him out of the cabin?

What if Jackson’s lying there out cold and the intruder’s coming for me next? What do I do then? Use the butcher knife on a person? In my career as a Nurse, I’d helped doctors during surgeries and it had never bothered me to see blood as much as it would any normal person. But to literally go for the kill?

I shuddered at the thought and hoped Jackson hadn’t gotten into trouble.

The bedroom door opened a while later. I held my breath for a few minutes and suddenly a hand wrapped around my ankle.

I screamed so loud, the birds abandoned their nest.

“Relax, Riley. It’s just me.” Jack said as he peeked at me from behind me.

“Are you trying to give me a heart attack?!” I asked as I crawled out form under the bed.

His face was unreadable, it was like he had mastered the art of pulling an impassive face. “You won’t like it. I’d suggest you should steer clear from seeing this.”

“I have to see it.”

“You won’t be able to handle it.” He warned.

“Who was it at the door?”

one. The person left a package.” He

explaining everything in detail instead of me asking him

was dreading

Riley! Will you just

won’t!” I said storming out of

to me but it was

had been unwrapped and was open. The glitter gift wrapper lay in tatters along with a pink ribbon. The box was red, not because that was the original color but because it was matted with

going to give me nightmares.

A human heart.

closed the box and stared at the gruesome

Whose heart was it?

had scary thoughts plague my mind. What if the

Maddy? Or

those thoughts

it belongs to. I’m guessing it’s the previous

you so sure?” I

the news. There’s no sign of any more bodies getting discovered so it has to

you think they sent us this package? What do they want to

is just a memo to let me know they have found my location. Whoever it is that is playing this sick game is keeping an eye on

had spots of blood on it. I picked it

time there

living in

the Million Dollar dynasty. A

the killing.

Bodies are

Jackson is lying.

you, and that’s a shame.

soul if you play my game

to remember Jackson’s handwriting. It was a bit different, although I knew criminals could fake a different handwriting

up to look like someone left the package when

“What’s going on in that little head of

my head.

perhaps wondering if I’m the one doing

he mind read just by looking at my

moment.” I

see his reaction. A slight clue would give

a long time.

brow.

trailed off to create more suspense. “He is pretty bad

a knife at him. “It says you’re lying. What are you

looked outside the window, his eyes staring at a distance. “It

“Are you?”

get me, there will be a trial

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