Chapter Five

Valerie's POV

The monster finally unchained me after he was done. He kicked and pulled me on the ground like a criminal. I cried, face buried on my lap. I cursed him under my breath, I cursed my half-brother for putting me into this mess.

"Please let me go" I begged as I made to cover my bare body with my arms. He flashed a wicked sneer at me. A growl formed at the corner of his lip as though he was to consider my plea and soon he got up from his seat which stood behind the large table in the room. The hooting sound from his massive leather boots crushed against the marble tiles.

I recoiled into my skin, folding my legs against each other as he approached me. I trembled with fear, a type that made my heart fall out.

"Not again" I prayed in my heart.

He stopped a few inches away from my face and then he bent down to meet me.

"You are mine, I own you" he yelled angrily into my face and walked away.

Streams of tears began to roll down my cheeks. My eyes were swollen due to long hours of crying. My entire body arched. I craved water and food and a bath. He had seized my clothes from me and left me to lay bare skinned on the ground. My core arched and burned with pain. I tried to move my leg but stopped as the pain grew worse.

I couldn't tell how long I have been trapped in this large dark room. I closed my eyes

I wiped from pain and wished my parents were alive at least all of this wouldn't have happened. I had to look for a way to escape this death trap. Soon my eyes became very heavy, I sulked and laid on the ground in a few minutes I was swept off my sleep.  I don't know how many hours I slept. I was woken by the riffling sound from the door. I got up shaking in fear and from the tiny rays of light that illuminated the room from the tiny space in the thick black blinds I could tell that a new day had emerged.

I shook and trembled and waited for the man to whom I had been forcefully enslaved.

"Please don't hurt me" I cried and begged.

He was silent. Only the ruffling keys could be heard and then the door creaked open.

"Don't hurt me, please" I said softly. Too scared to speak.

He walked in and shut the door behind him.

I caught his eyes, the very same ones I had seen last night. They were hazel gray bright large eyes. A perfect set that matched his face.

"Who are you?" I asked as I covered my legs and wrapped my arms against my chest in a crisscross.

"Are you afraid of me?" He asked with a tiny smile forming at the corner of his mouth. His eyes were bright and hopeful.

He walked closer to me and each step he took I coiled back almost disappearing into the wall.

"You don't have to be scared" he said and ran a quick look across my body. When his eyes finally rested on my chest I tightened the grip on my skin with my arms.

He smiled, and went over to the other end of the room to get me a black cloth. He wrapped it around me.

“Why did you let him do it?” he asked in a calm tone.

“I couldn’t have stopped hi” I said, blinking bank the tears that had now form in my eyes.

He let out a deep sigh and took a seat on the floor right next to me.

I bowed my head in between my legs. Too ashamed to face the fine man sitting next to me. He brushed his ar against mine. The soft movement poured chills on my spine.

"I am Carlos," he said in a soft and yet deep tone. My heart skipped a bit, I wasn't sure why it leaped.

"Valerie". I replied shyly. My eyes focus on his boots.

From his face I could tell he had a slight resemblance with the one who had violated my body.

"I brought you food" he told me and pushed the flask of food that he had walked into the room with.

"I can't eat that" I managed to respond even though I was starving deep down. My body needed the food, my stomach wanted the food but I couldn't bring myself to eating anything that comes from the den of my abuser.

"You have to try and eat something. Rambo is away on a short trip and will be back tomorrow".

This information lifted my spirit but then I had to be a woman. A little bit dramatic.

"Why are you helping me?" I asked.

"Help?" He chuckled.

"Just eat, we get caught"

I grabbed the flask and began to eat hungrily from it.

He waited patiently for me to finish and just when I was about handing the flask back to him we heard steps approaching the room.

"We are in deep trouble" he muttered under his breath and snatched the flask from my hand.