Twisted Fate by J. Busch (smart books to read .txt) 📖

for 11 years.
Leon quickly got to his feet and headed towards Jenna again.
“ If I can’t have you then no one can” he shouted
Jenna moved to the side. Leon stabbed the wall this time. Getting very frustrated, Leon untied Jenna and proceeded to drag her down the steps. Gagging her so that the neighbors wouldn’t hear her screams.
Once again Jenna finds herself in the kitchen. Leon opening the door to the basement. Jenna began to sqwarm more and more trying to get away. He reaches the bottom steps and throws Jenna into a dark room where he proceeds to shut the door. Jenna could hear him locking it from the other side. She begins to cry fear for her life. She knows what he had done to her mother and now what he was going to do to her.
Hours passed and Jenna was beginning to get weak. She could hear him outside the door making all kinds of noises. She wasn’t for sure what he was doing but she knew it couldn’t be good.
Finally the door creaked open and a small amount of light shown through. Jenna sat up for a moment, waiting for Leon to come and get her. At first she thought hey this is what I wanted to begin with wasn’t it. I wanted to die but i wasn’t for sure why. Maybe it was all this. Deep down inside i knew what had happened but it was tearing me up inside not believing it to be true. For moments no noise or movements where made outside of the door. Jenna thought maybe someone had come to rescue her.
She sat there a few moments longer and watched. After taking a deep breathe she headed for the door as hard and as fast as she could. The second Jenna was outside that door a hand grabbed the back of her shirt and pulled her back towards them
“ Didn’t think i would let you leave me again did you?” a creepy voice from behind her came.
Then Leon strapped her down to one of the operating tables. Jenna couldn’t move. She pulled and pushed trying everything in her power to get away. Nothing would work. Finally Jenna just laid there. Thinking to herself, this is it. She knew he was going to kill her and there was nothing she could do about it.


Leon stood over Jenna with a surgical saw running.
“ This may hurt a bit” he said with an evil chuckle
Leon fired up the drill even more and begin to move towards Jenna’s stomach. The cold steel of the blade was so close to her skin she could almost feel it. Jenna closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. All of a sudden the sound of the blade went silent and Jenna could hear it hit the floor. She quickly opened her eyes. Leon was gone.

CHAPTER 6
THE HERO

Her first thought was what happened, was I dreaming. She begin to struggle again with the restraints that held her to the table. As she moved from side to side trying to get loose a young man come out of the shadows and reached over to help her. Jenna’s eyes locked on him as if they where stuck.
Who is this is thought to herself. As the man moved into the light above her Jenna seen his face. The man in the memory she thought. The man who took her away from all this. He undoes all of the restraints and Jenna jumps off the table. She stands there for a minute taking in the strangers features. He looks familiar but there is something different.
As he turns to grab the saw Jenna notices the scar that runs from his ear to his chin. She slowly walks over and begins to lay her hand on his face. He jerks back and looks at her as if she had done something wrong.
“ What happened to you face?” she asked
The man looks at her with a little bit of anger as if she should know what happened.
“ Please tell me what happened” she cried
“ He did it to me” the man whispered “ Don’t you remember?”
Jenna wanted to remember. She wanted to make sense of everything. She leaned up against the cold wall closing her eyes hoping something would come to mind. The man grabs a rope and begins to tie Leon up so he is unable to escape. Jenna turns to see what the man was doing. She watches him carefully not sure weather to trust him or not.
“ Should we call the police?” Jenna asked
“ Why they didn’t help you before” the man said sarcastically
Jenna wasn’t quite sure what he mean by that. After tying up Leon the man shuffled over to Jenna. He was about a head taller than her. She looked at the ground not know what was going to happen next.
The man got close to Jenna. Her heart was beating so hard she was sure he could feel it. He put his hand under Jenna’s chin and lifted her head until there eyes met. His eyes we so dark and cold as if there was something missing inside. For some reason they seemed to make Jenna feel this odd comfort as if she knew with him she was safe. He stared at her for only a moment and begin to speak but stopped before the words could come out.
Jenna stared back at him hoping something would trigger her memory. Finally she asked,
“ What is your name?”
“Max” he replied
Max she thought. Her mind begin racing through every person she had ever met trying to remember him. Finally she looks at him with a sadness in her eyes and says
“ How do i know you?”
Max reaches in his pocket and pulls out a picture. He hands it to Jenna and turns to finish with Leon. Jenna turns the picture over and sees her and the boy sitting outside the oak tree that just stood a few feet from the fence that surrounded Becker State Hospital.
“When was this taken” she said
“ Two weeks ago” Max replied
Two weeks ago she thought. If she remembered right from early she had figured that she had been gone for eleven years. Jenna wasn’t quite sure what to say next. She had so many questions and hoped that Max could answer them for her. Still looking at the picture she turned towards Max and asked
“Where have I been for 11 years.”
Max begin to explain to Jenna what had happened 11 years ago. How her father had killed her mother and how Jenna had witnessed the whole thing.
“ I worked for you father as an assistant. I didn’t know of his plan to kill your mother but i did know that he had killed before. His patients were so crazy that they didn’t think anything of the screams from the basement. They all assumed that is was some kind of treatment and that the person was cured afterwards since they never returned.”
Once again Jenna asked “ How do i know you”
Max begins to explain “the night that he killed you mother i was out doing the nightly rounds to check if any of the patients had gotten outside. I heard a terrible scream like i had never heard before.”
Max looked down at the floor and with almost a cry in his voice he said “ i thought it was you”
Jenna’s heart began to sink. She was starting to think that Max wanted more than just to work for her father.
“Go on” she said
Max wiped a few tears from his eyes and continued with his story.
“ The first time I saw you, you where only thirteen, and at that time i was nearing eighteen i knew better than to try anything with you for fear that it would not be accepted. I stayed on working with your dad even after the first kill to stay close to you. I didn’t want anything to happen to you.”
Jenna was still confused at this point. Why couldn’t she remember him and how did she find him two weeks ago when she couldn’t remember anything.
“ You ran out of the house the night your mother was killed” he explained “ i saw you and followed you to the oak tree. You climbed up in it and wouldn’t come down”
Jenna started to remember the old oak tree. She remembered the spot three branches up where she use to hide so no one could find her. But why could she remember that she thought to herself. Yet everything else seemed such a blur. Almost as if it was a dream, unreal.
“ I tried to get you down but you wouldn’t.” he said
“By morning you where gone”
Jenna wanted to know more but Leon begin to come too. Max walked over to him and checked his pulse. It was still beating. Faintly now but still there. Max walked over to a bench filled with tools of all kinds. He started throwing things around as if he were looking for something. Jenna wasn’t quite sure what he was looking for or what he might do to Leon. Almost as if she began to fear what might happen next. Than Jenna said something that made Max stop what he was doing almost immediately.
“ Did you love me?” Jenna asked
Max turned from the table with a scalpel in his hand. Jenna held her breathe for a moment. Max looked at her with almost rage in his eyes before saying
“ I loved you more than anyone could ever love you. I waited for you for years hoping you would come back here and we could be together.”
Jenna wasn’t sure what she should say. The scalpel in Max’s hand made her think before she spoke. This time her voice trembled a little.
“Are you going to hurt me” she said looking at the scalpel that reflected the light that hung above them.
Max put down the scalpel and walked over to Jenna.
“ NO” he said “I would never do that to you”
Jenna breathed a sigh of relief almost as if there was nothing more to worry about. Then she looked down at the floor and saw Leon’s eyes began to open.

CHAPTER 7
STARTING TO REMEMBER

Before Max could even do anything Jenna rushed over to the bench and grabbed a mallet from one of the shelves. Leon looked up at her with almost a happy look in his eyes and said
“What, are you gonna kill me, your own father”
Leon’s words hit Jenna like a moving bus. She dropped the mallet and began to cry. Max watched from the corner in fear that Leon may try to attack again. Jenna fell to her knees next to Leon who was now starting to become covered in blood. Leon reached for Jenna’s hand but she pulled away before he could touch her. Jenna began to