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    [ DESTINY CARTER ]

I quilled my body like a ball on the cold floor.My whole body was burning with the pain.I laid on the floor to support my badly hurting back which might have deep wound given by the whip.

He didn't stop beating me until I blacked out few hours back.My sin was the same like other days.I refused to surrender my body to his wolfie lust.

The pain was becoming worse by each passing moment.What was my mistake that my own family used me as a mortgage to save themselves from getting homeless.

I let the fresh tears fall uncontrollably from my stony eyes.The pain both on my heart and body was getting worst day by day.I was at relief as instead of continuous torture,I succeed in saving my dignity from that wolf in a man's skin.

But how far?

One day or another he will get for what he had paid a hefty amount of money to my family.

Why I was even alive and for whom?My family who happily accepted his fucking proposal that he will give them the money by which they could save our home and in return they had to offer any of their two daughters.

And my step mother,who always dreamt to get rid off me any how,didn't think twice before pushing me inside his car in spite of my continues begging on her feet.

Remembering my scary past,I sobbed on the rugged mattress and finally drifted off to the sleep.

When I woke up ,the sunrays were sprawling in the whole chamber .My empty stomach was twisting due to lack of food for last two days.My throat had dried for water too.

I peeped out of the small window.The melodious chirping of birds gave me a little comfort.I need to get out of this hell before it drown me in the bloody river of lust.

I leaned on the wall behind me after making three futile attempt to stand up but my weak legs gave up as my last drop of strength exhausted.

When suddenly the door unlocked.I raised my heavy swollen eye lashes to look at the person.

A girl in her mid twenties may be similar to my age entered with the food tray in her hands and a leather satchel hanging on her shoulder.

She bent down on her knees putting the tray on the floor and held my shoulder.

"Are you alright?"She asked me

very softly,her tender voice applied an emotional ointment on my aching soul.

I gulped the tears.What should I tell her when she knew what exactly happened to me.My wails must be enough audible to reach the servant's ears.

"Please eat this."She slided the plate to me which had two boiled eggs,a pancake with two bread,some peanut butter spreaded on them.

I struggled to raise my hand as the pain increase whenever my sore muscles tensed with force.

She was watching me with pity.But I chose to concentrate on my food as I was starving at moment.

"Do you want freedom?"She gravelly asked me.

I looked at her not getting why she did ask me such useless question when everybody knows no one can trespass the walls of this prison.

"Do you think that I came here on my own wish.Only a mad person can put his or her head on the sword."I mocked in reply.

She stared at me intently for few moments then slowly put the satchel off her shoulder and gave it to me.

"What is inside it?"I observed it

with confusion.

"The key to your freedom."She answered and signalled me to open it.

I pulled back the zipper and took

out a dress thus my eyes widened when her words made their way in my brain.

"Sir and his men are leaving in fifteen minutes,the main door gets auto locked after a minute.So you have to escape in that span of time."she explained me her plan.

"But the guards they will catch me and then slaughter me with their bare hands."I let out my fear.

"This is my dress,wear it and then cover your face properly.Take my ID card when they will ask you about the veil simply tell them that you have just caught small pox that's why you covered your face to avoid sunrays.However the bright weather will help you in a good way."She said.

"Why are you doing it for me when you know.They will come to know about it later and your life will be on stake."I asked her.

"You call it a life."She smiled faintly.Two pearls slipped from her eyes which she wiped off immediately."You know I was only seven when my father died in a war while he was saving the country from the enemy forces my mother wandered here and there with me to find a job so that she could support both our lives and-"her voice choked."She came here and he asked her to serve in his bed in favour of giving us a shelter.She was not a woman who could be easily broken but she was a mother too.She had to be ready for him at any hour of the night.She bore all the physical assault bravely but the emotional pain plagued her in the form of tuberculosis and one day she left me to survive alone here.Like you I too wished to fly away from here but it was too late or can say I was not brave enough to retaliate the way you do every time he tries to tear your womanly pride"She sobbed.

I embraced her tightly to console her.After a good give minute she asked me to change in those clothes and herself went out to check if they were gone.

I was peeping down from the window where she had put a ladder so I could quickly escape.

"Destiny hurry up their cars are about to exit the main gate come fast."She signalled from a distance.

I swiftly climbed down the ladder and reached to her.She took out her id card and gave it to me.

"Its time promise me you will never look back at your past."She wanted a promise from me.

"I can never pay back your this favour Jenny."I whispered in her ear when she stood behind the bushes .

"Take care of yourself Destiny.I know your happiness is waiting for you with open arms."She gave me her brightest smile and disappeared in the thick bushes.

I squeezed the id card in my hands and started taking long sprints towards the exit when someone called me from behind.

"Why are you covering your face Jenny?"He threw the expected question as Jenny told me.

"Small pox with fever."I coughed a couple of times to make him believe on my story.

"Come back soon because Sir has invited his foreign guests and he want his beautiful girls to be present in front of him as the guests may need a companion during night."He shamelessly told me those shitty words.

"Okay."I briefly answered while gulping the anger that was eager to chop his tongue off.

I crossed the last barrier of the slavery and literally ran for my

dear life.

When suddenly he shouted .

"Hey you're not Jenny but that girl Destiny fucking Carter you bitch come back or else your bones won't be found on this earth."

But I couldn't take that risk of getting scared of his threat that would end my life .

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