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Chapter 11 It had been almost twelve hours since Lisa had been locked up in the warehouse. Barry had walked around,looking for her for over three hours. He had finally found her sitting on top of a stack of boxes and she was still looking extremely weak. When Barry approached Lisa,she raised her head to meet him halfway."What is it?",she asked as soon as she recognised Barry's voice. When she saw how scared he appeared,she knew that he must have lost Lisa somehow."I've lost her. She got out of the warehouse a few minutes ago and headed in this direction",he explained and began pointing in a different direction,"She ran into some people when she went to follow me. They told her to take off the necklace and she agreed to do it.",he continued after a brief pause.",They wanted to kill you."Lisa's face fell and her eyes filled with tears as she started sobbing uncontrollably.",What should I do?",she whispered."Don't worry.",He said with a sigh as he pulled her closer and wrapped his arms securely around her.",We'll get you out of there.","I'm sorry.",Lisa muttered into his chest."For what? It was my fault for agreeing to go along with this.",he replied. Lisa nodded and tightened her grip around him. He then noticed how she had stopped crying and looked up at him."Let's start heading back to your place. You need rest.",he suggested."Alright.",Lisa murmured quietly. Both of them started making their way back through the crowd,which slowly dispersed as they made their way back to Barry's apartment. About twenty minutes later,they arrived at Allen's apartment. Lisa was exhausted. Barry opened the door and gestured for her to enter. Lisa hesitated for a moment,glancing around nervously,before stepping inside. Barry followed closely behind her and helped Lisa to remove her coat and shoes,then put the bag of stolen money underneath the sofa so that Lisa could lie down comfortably. Lisa lay back onto the sofa and gazed up at Barry. Without saying a word,Barry sat down next to her. He leaned forward slightly and rested his elbows on his knees. After a couple of seconds of silence,he turned his head to look directly into her eyes. His green eyes met hers with a pleading expression on his face and Lisa instantly softened her heart as she noticed that he was desperately trying to get something across to her,something important,something that might change her mind about him. However,Lisa was already feeling dazed from exhaustion and her eyelids started to close. Just as she was falling asleep,Barry's lips brushed against her ear,caressing it lightly with his warm breaths."Love you,Lisa.",he murmured gently into her ear before closing his eyes and falling asleep himself. The words that he had spoken echoed continuously in Lisa's ears,distracting her so much that she slept fitfully. A loud noise awoke her and caused her to groan painfully,as she lifted her head slightly. Lisa tried to rub the sleep from her eyes and squinted her eyes as she tried to focus on where she was,where she had been sleeping and who had disturbed her slumber. Then,Lisa remembered the previous night's events and she realized that she had been captured by the gangster's men,who had forced her to wear a bracelet that prevented her from escaping. She was furious. If she hadn't escaped from the warehouse,she would still be at her mother's house and none of this would have happened. She looked around and saw that she was in what was apparently Barry's bedroom. She could hear him snoring gently in the next room. Lisa jumped up and looked at the door. She was still chained to one of the walls,and she couldn't get away. For some reason,although she couldn't think why,all of the anger that she had felt the previous night returned. She kicked at the floorboards of the closet and cursed silently,when the floorboard underneath the floorboard squeaked and cracked slightly,and then she heard footsteps approaching the room.