[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-bound-to-my-enemy":3,"chapter-bound-to-my-enemy-bound-to-my-enemy-chapter-182":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Bound to my Enemy",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1600120,2067,"Chapter 182.","bound-to-my-enemy-chapter-182",182,"\u003Cp>I can’t move, I blink slowly, trying to focus as the world tilts strangely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hear something distant, some voices and muffled footsteps getting closer. I try to turn to check on Aaron but my head feels very heavy, so so heavy it feels like I’m drowning under water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My eyes try to track the sound outside but everything is slipping and my head throbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each heartbeat making it worse. I try to move my hand but it barely twitches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door.....i think they’re at the door, the footsteps stop right outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My chest rises so quickly I think I’m going to have a heart attack, which dims my vision further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last thing I hear...is the sound of the car door being yanked open and footsteps approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aaron....aaron I...I need to help him, we need to get away from here I chant in my head as I weakly try to lift my head but then....... everything goes black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>———-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I come to, it fees like somethings is dragging me back, like I’m being pulled up through thick water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My head is the first thing I feel. Theres a deep pounding pain sitting right behind my eyes like it’s trying to split my skull open from the inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I let out a small sound before I can stop myself. But it barely comes out cause my throat feels dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly everythibg else follows in pieces. Thee cold against my skin, the stiffness in my neck, rhe dull ache running down my arm, and my fingers.....my fingers feel... numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I blink or at least I try to.....even my eyelids feel heavy like they just don’t want to open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when they finally do, everything is blurred, nothing is clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I breath in slowly....the air smelling ... stale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My chest rises, falls so fast, I have to force it to slow down as my vision swims and the room tilts slightly. I swallow hard, fighting the nausea that creeps up my throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay...\" I whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My voice sounds weak and barely there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t move yet....i....i can’t, not when everything feels like it’s shifting so I focus on breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In. Out. In.Out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It takes a while. I don’t know how long, minutes maybe?time feels off. But slowly... very slowly... things start to settle as the spinning eases just a little and the blur starts to thin. Nit completely but enough.....enough for me to start noticing things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first thing... i can’t move my arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My breath stutters as I try again, still nothing as my wrists strain slightly, pulling instinctively. Something digs into my skin tightly. I try to look down and even that takes effort as my head protests immediately, a sharp wave of pain forcing a hiss out of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I push through it and that’s when I see it.there’s a rope tied tightly around my wrists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My stomach drops. No. No, no.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My legs, I try to move them but same thing, they are bound tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heart starts racing again so fast it’s only the sound of it fills my ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck...\" I whisper, panic starting to creeping in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ive been kidnapped....the realization feels unreal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My breathing picks up again, coming fast and unevenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay...okay, calm down,\" I whisper quickly, almost like I’m talking to someone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Calm down, Elaine. Just.....just calm the fuck down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My head throbs harder with the panic and I have to squeeze my eyes shut briefly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Calm down and think...You’ve seen this before right?. You’ve watched many kidnap movies.....people get out, they survive this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You just have to think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s a way,\" I murmur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s always a way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My hands flex again, testing the rope and it burns against my skin. The rop is too tight, way too tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But maybe...maybe I can loosen it or atleast try to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I twist my wrists slowly and carefully but the rope seems to be biting deeper. I suck in a breath through my teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit.....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Okay. Maybe nt that way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Think. Think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shift slightly in the chair and try to lean forward. Mayb If I can slip one hand,....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No. The rope holds firm, it doesn’t even budge and my fingers tingle painfully now. That numbness isn’t normal, I glance down again and my hands..... They’re slightly discolored, a hint of purple creeping in. My spikes again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no, no...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pull harder this time desperately but th rope digs in deeper, shooting pain up my arms bt it doesn’t move nor even an inch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My chest tightens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m stuck. I’m actually stuck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of my own breathing fills the space again as I force myself to stop and slow down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re going to make it worse by panicking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Think. Just think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I try again, trying to find even the smallest give...still Nothing. Nothing at all, my shoulders ache from the position and my head pulses again as a sharp, blinding wave of pain that makes my vision flicker go through my head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stop moving immediately as the room spins again, hardr this time and I squeeze my eyes shut, my teeth clenching as I try to ride it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Breathe... just breathe...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In.Out. In....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A voice cuts through the silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh... you’re awake.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I freeze, mt eyes snapping open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly nd carefully, so that have that blinding head pain again I turn my head toward the sound even though that little movement still sends another wave of pain through my skull, but I push through it as my vision struggles again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then slowly.....I see a figure across from me also seated and tied up\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My eyes strain to clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then..... i recognize him as the driver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relief hits me so suddenly it almost makes me dizzy again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re... alive,\" I breathe out. My voice soundung cracked and weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lets out a small huff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",983,"2026-06-06T09:39:37.420Z",1,"novelbin.me","d6f6f0b960f472ed90166496d55c26020fcb032ff2fb6c7ebe7affa7371e5523","bound-to-my-enemy-chapter-183","bound-to-my-enemy-chapter-181",266,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbound-to-my-enemy-cover.jpg"]