DANGEROUS ESCAPE

CHAPTER 2

“Lloyd please don’t do this, Please,” Nancy begged as their car was parked in the private car park of the hospital the next morning.

Lloyd continued smoking his cigar and signaled one of his men to get her out of the car without even looking at her.

Minutes later, Nancy was in a hospital gown, laying on an examination table with her legs spread apart as the evil doctor Lloyd paid to commit this crime poked her insides with whatever devilish device she used in doing her master’s bidding.

Nancy’s face did not hide her sadness, neither did the tears falling off her face as she stared blankly at the ceiling.

“We’re done here,” the doctor said but her voice sounded distant because Nancy’s soul wasn’t in that room anymore.

She let out a breath she didn’t even know she was holding, wiped her tears and stood up. As she changed out of the gown, the doctor gave her tampons to wear because there was a chance she might bleed later on. She also gave her some medication for the throbbing pain she felt in her insides.

As Nancy walked back to the car park, accompanied by Lloyd’s bodyguard who stood inside the examination room the whole time to monitor the process, everything came rushing back to her mind and she couldn’t hold back the tears.

How she first met Lloyd, how sweet he was to her in the early days of their relationship, how she had to lie to her parents that she was going to culinary school abroad just so she could move in with him permanently.

She forgot about her dreams of becoming a chef for this man and this is what she gets in return. Being called a thing of pleasure and forced to abort her child.

“Don’t just stand there crying, get inside,” Lloyd’s cold voice jolted her out of her thoughts as she stood in front of the car.

“I don’t want to, please just let me go, I’m sure you can find someone else for your pleasure,” she replied, sniffing and trying to stifle her sobs.

“What did you say?” He said, propping his head out of the window and staring her down with daggers literally shooting out of his eyes and piercing her already wounded heart.

“I don’t want to go with you Lloyd, let me go, you don’t need me,” She remained motionless as she stared blankly into his cold eyes.

“Get her inside,” He ordered his bodyguard who wasted no time in grabbing her arms. Since it was useless to try and fight, she just let him push her inside.

“Here I got you something, it’ll cheer you up,” Lloyd handed her a box with a stupid smile on his face.

She looked at the box in his hand, she returned her sad look to him, before looking away.

“Take it,” Lloyd commanded, raising his voice and forcing the box into her hand.

“Open it, and don’t make me repeat myself,” He ordered, the amusing look on his face earlier had been replaced by a stern one.

She opened the gift box and it was a set of a diamond necklace with matching earrings and bracelets.

For the first time since they met, Nancy didn’t appreciate a gift Lloyd got her.

She simply said “Thank you,” It could have as well been a whisper.

He nodded in acknowledgment and she closed the box and looked away before the flood of tears resumed.

When they got back home, Lloyd stayed with her in her room. He tried to apologize and pacify her, explaining why it was necessary to do what he did but she just kept crying, completely ignoring him.

It annoyed him that he was being ignored and once he couldn’t take it anymore, he stormed out of the house.

Nancy had no strength left in her to cry and frankly her eyes were already void of tears. She didn’t even know when she dozed off.

She woke up to a nasty headache and was famished. She looked at the time and it was 8pm. Shit! Lloyd would soon be home, she needed to make dinner.

Even though she thought he didn’t deserve it, her heart wouldn’t let her allow him go hungry.

Lloyd may be cruel and abusive at times but he never ate outside, he only ate her food. She would hate for him to come back to nothing to eat.

To her surprise, the door to her room was locked. Lloyd had locked her in. She stood helpless at the door and her head continued to bang.

‘I wish I didn’t love you Lloyd, I really wish I didn’t. Despite all you’ve done and said to me, my stupid heart still craves for you.’

Nancy struggled to the bathroom to get an aspirin from the medicine cabinet but she was out of those. Then she remembered the doctor gave her some meds for pain.

‘Those should suffice for the headache.’ She thought.

She rummaged through her bag for the med pack and as she read the prescription card, her heart literally jumped out of her chest. Her hands instinctively fell to her tummy and a trickle of tears ran down her cheeks.

She felt real happiness surge through her.

[ I took out your IUD, not your baby. Get away from that man as soon as possible. Free yourself. No mother deserves to lose their child if it is not their will.]

The evil doctor turned out to be an angel afterall.

Her headache was gone in an instant. The note gave her all the energy she needed. The right motivation to free herself, but how? She was locked in her room with no way out.

She looked at her window and a crazy idea dropped in her mind. She had seen it in action movies before. She only hoped this wasn’t one of those things that only worked in the movies.

From the 4th floor of their condo building, Nancy stringed whatever fabric she could lay her hands on together. From the sheets to the curtains, even some of her joggers and whatever could hold.

She mustered enough strength to push the bed frame a little closer to the window after removing the mattress.

She loosened her black shiny hair from the bun it was rolled into, got into a tight jeans and wore a black cap over her head and a black hoodie for double cover.

She looked for the biggest hand bag she could find and packed some essentials before flinging it over her shoulders.

Nancy fastened one end of the string to the base of the bed frame and threw the other end out of the window. She watched as it dropped and she smiled when it touched the ground perfectly.

In a few minutes, she had climbed down the string and out of the apartment. She was a petite woman so she didn’t have a lot of weight to hold which made the climb down easier. Thank God she wasn’t scared of heights.

As the taxi she boarded rolled out of Coral city to her hometown, Emerald Bay, Lloyd texted her. He had gotten home and discovered her escape.

[You can run Nancy, but you can’t hide, I’ll find you and bring you home. You belong to me.]

She stared at her phone in disgust and the next second, she threw it out the window.

‘Goodbye Lloyd, if our paths ever crossed again, I won’t be the weak little girl you used for your pleasure.’