Chapter 69
Bicol lowered his head and statted maluuchling his belt. He had made up hilsendid—It Nicole still refused to cooperate, he would use the belt to tie herhands.
Once he did that, she wouldn’t be able to figli back at all.
Nicole glanced down. The front of her shirt had already been tippest open she felt uftedly humiliated, and laer eyes heimmed with
In her panic, she reached out with all her strength – I grabbed the surgical scalpel from the lab table. Without hesitating another second, she swung it at facob
The sound cut through the alt, freezing everything, around
Jacob stared in disbelief at the scalpel now embedded in his chest. Palm exploded through him.
Nicole took a deep breath, eyes burning red. “Jacob, you left me no choice!“
Before Jacob could even react, she raised her foot and licked him hand. He stumbled backward. She used that moment to jump down from the Lab rable and grabbed
It he wanted to be vicious, she would be even worse,
Jacob’s face went completely dark, fury radiat lay, oti him like a stou,
“Nicole!” he roated.
However, Nicole didn’t dare hesitate, she turned and bolted for the window.
The lab was on the second floor, jumping down wouldn’t Idil her. A broken bone or two was nothing compared to staying in a room with a maniac like Jacob. More than anything, she couldn’t bear being touched by him. It made her sick to her stomach
Jacobs snapped out of it and yanked the scalpel from bils chest. Ignorting the blood gushing out, he charged toward Nicole in long strides. “Nicole, don’t even think about numming!”
Nicole scrambled up onto the windowsill. Without looking back, she leapt out. Her body crashed into the bushes below. Thorns tore at her skin, but she couldn’t feel a thing
Above her, Jacob’s cold voice echoed down. “You can run all you want. But I won’t give up until I’ve had you in my bed!TM
Nicole bit down on her lip and pushed herself up from the ground, falling off without a second thought.
The campus usually had streetlights on at night, but tonight was different. It was pitch black everywhere not a single light was on. She could barely see athing. Still, she ran with everything she had. Her legs ached, wealand mbling, but slær didn’t dare stop, not even for a second.
Jacob’s footsteps were still right behind her.
Tenor clouded her mind. She couldn’t let him catch her, no inatter what. Even if she was no match for Jacobs plyysically, she had to keep running.
Suddenly, his voice rang our behind her. “Micole, whirie do you think you’re going?”
Nicole’s eyes widened. Her legs gave out, and she stumbled forward.
Crushed by fear, she couldn’t breail
thought she was done for either she would get caught by Jacob or she would hit the ground hand.
But just as she lost hope, neither of those things happened. Instead, a pair of strong aling caught her mid- fall.
Nicole landed in a warm embrace. That familiar scent of sage filled her nose agalic Stunned, she looked up. The light was dim, but she could still make out the
