Finding Maggie- Part 1

I initially left LEAVING SPENCER on a cliffhanger. I wanted to continue the story, but I also wanted to be a bit different by changing the perspective. This was harder than I thought it would be. Getting inside the mind of a person like this without leaving the reader feeling sorry for them is hard thing to do. This is still not the writing I would like to do in the long run. But being able to explore everything is helping me learn what I do like. TRIGGER WARNING: PHISICAL ABUSE, MENTAL ABUSE, SEXUAL ASSULT.

Maggie had only thought that Spencer was asleep. But he was not so drunk that he wasn’t able to hear her sobs coming from the bathroom door. She was calling her parents to come to get her. She belonged to him. How has she not learned that yet? Spencer kept his eyes closed and his breathing even as she put his phone back and tried to sneak out. He immediately picked up his phone and called Cole.

“What do you need done boss?” Cole answered immediately. That was his job. What Spencer’s dad paid him to do. Be available 24/7 for whatever problems Spencer needed to handle.

“Her parents are on the way. Stop them however necessary.” Spencer said coldly. Cole hung up and Spencer lay in the dark waiting for confirmation. Cole sent a message saying “done”. Spencer stood up out of bed and watched Maggie hiding in the bush next to the front gate.

“She will break. This will break her. She has no one else to turn to now. I get everything I want, and I knew I wanted her a long time ago. She will figure out that I’m her only choice.” Spencer may only be talking to himself, but he didn’t care.

Cole finally sent another message saying “both pronounced at the scene. Deer caused accident. Jones is on his way for notification.” And a meager five minutes later the light on the cop car came into view.

Maggie looked like her world had ended when she walked back up the stairs. His dad shook his hand and told him good job taking care of the situation quickly. Spencer was determined to be worthy of his father’s empire one day. This was one step in the right direction.

That was until two weeks later. Spencer woke up early in the morning to get an alert from his bank about a large cash withdrawal. It was two o’clock in the morning. What was this? Then he noticed that Maggie wasn’t in bed with him. Spencer checked his account again. It wasn’t his account, it was Maggie’s. the one that the lawyer needed her to open to put her insignificant inheritance in. Spencer did have her put his name on it so that he could “help her with it.” He did plan to drain it in a couple months in case she got the stupid idea of trying to leave again. But it seems that he underestimated her. Looking closely at the account activity there was a bus ticket as well as the atm cash withdraw in the same location. She must be stupid. She’ll be home by morning. Spencer called Cole again.

“Maggie is trying to run again. Bus station on Millard. Bring the stupid girl home back by morning.”

“Absolutely sir. Ill be right on it.” Spencer hung up the phone and decided to go back to bed. Cole would manage to get Maggie home and Spencer would take care of her punishment then.

When Spencer woke up, he got dressed and went downstairs expecting to find Maggie sitting waiting for him at the breakfast table. He was so mad at her for trying to leave him again but confident in Cole’s ability. So, it came as a shock when he saw his parents and not Maggie.

“Good morning darling. Did you have a good night?” his mother asked.

“Yes, I hope it was productive. I heard you teach Maggie another lesson. What did that girl need to learn this time?” his father questioned

“Oh, that was just her not putting away the toothpaste again. Speaking of Maggie. Where did Cole deposit her this morning?” Spencer kept looking around expecting to find them.

“What do you mean? Why would Cole have Maggie?” his father asked putting down his paper.

“Maggie tried taking a bus out of the city last night. I called Cole to go get her.”

“Well, Cole hasn’t been here all morning, Spencer. You should give him a call to check. Remind him, if you must, that she is your property, not his. So only you can punish her.” His mother’s gentle voice never came over a whisper and her eyes stayed focused on her plate just as his father had taught her. Spencer wished Maggie was there already.

Spencer pulled out his phone and called Cole since he had no messages.

“Hello, Mr. Spencer” Cole sounded as if he was bracing himself.

“Cole where are you? Why haven’t you brought Maggie home yet? You better not have touched her. She is mine and mine alone.”

“No, no, no, no! Mr. Spencer, sir, please listen. I can’t find her. She isn’t at the bus station. I looked four times. I found her debit card in pieces in a garbage can. So, she is not planning on using it again. And the tracking device isn’t working. The one I put in her shoes for you.”

“Dame it. I forgot about that. I got her a new pair a few days ago and put the old pair in the trash. Okay, it’s fine, we will find her. Where did she buy a ticket to?” Spencer cursed himself. His dad won’t like this. He was already doubting that Maggie would conform. And now she has tried to leave for a third time.

“The bus was heading for Tucson, AZ but it had at least twenty stops between here and there. That’s just the cities. There are also rest areas too. She is smart she could have gone anywhere.”

“Not smart enough to run away from me. She has no one. I will find her.” Spencer hung up the phone and turned around to face his father. There was a cold stare that Spencer knew only too well.

“She has seen too much. She knows too much. You find her and eliminate her or bring her back so that I can punish her for you if you need. Do you understand?” he said in a low growl. Spencer hadn’t heard his father speak like that in a long time. But he was right. If Maggie was going to learn, Spencer would have to let his father do what must be done. And that Spencer would need to watch every second to become the man he needed to be. But first to find Maggie.

“I understand” Spencer sent a message to Cole as well as to Gerard and Alan, who were also on the payroll to take care of these things when needed. He told them to be ready by noon. They were going to track Maggie down.

To be continued…