The Killers Freedom

Chapter Ten: Are we Alone

This time I woke up again with a blindfold on but I was on a soft surface covered in a blanket. My arms now chained on either side of me and my legs free to move around. It felt like a bed beneath me.

Again, I felt eyes watching me and I strained my ears to hear anything but I was left with my own thoughts tormenting my mind. I needed to find a way out, Stryker and his men will be looking for me soon. They check up on me every few hours so it's not to say they haven't notified him I went missing. Now all I have to do is get free and send a message to them that I'm in Russia and kidnapped by... Well that I need to figure out because I don't believe that Joseph could do this to me. Could he?

A knock on the door confirms I am in a different room then before. This room didn't smell of blood and bile. I tried to face where I think the knock came from and before I could say anything a voice to my left booms out, "come in, she's awake," it wasn't a voice I had ever remembered hearing before, making it harder to identify the man behind it.

They must be doing something to me because all of my senses are off. I should have known there was another person in this room the second I woke up. How could I not hear them breathing? Or sense a pair of eyes on me? I shifted uncomfortably, the metal around my wrists creating a bruising feeling. This is going to take weeks to heal.

Footsteps entered and the soft voice spoke up letting me know it was Elaine entering. "Miss, I need to dress your wound again," she spoke, her voice nearing me as her footsteps approached the bed I was laying on. Whoever was in the room must have left because I heard a second set of heavy footsteps disappear and the door click shut.

"Miss I am going to take off this blindfold but you have to promise you will not harm me. Your legs are not bound, I have seen Roman's fractures and do not wish to be on the receiving end of that." Roman, I thought to myself mentally laughing at that idiot, I forgot I knocked him around when I first arrived. I took all my frustration and anger out on that smug annoyed look he plastered across his face.

Elaine undid my blindfold to display the room I was in. The exact same lavender room I slept in when I dropped off the package three weeks ago. A room someone could find such peace and tranquility in. Given the proper circumstances. Nothing was touched or changed except this time I was bound to the bed by thick metal cuffs and chains. Like I was some kind of beast these people were afraid of.

"Are we alone?" I spoke in a hushed tone, making eye contact with her beady doe like eyes. She held so much empathy for the state I was in and tried to hide it but failed. I needed to make sure we could speak freely because all I could feel was this knot in my stomach telling me someone else was watching us.

"We are alone. I need to move quickly and clean you up. I apologize but I was instructed to bathe you since you haven't washed since you came," her tone was different than before, it was cold and precise, I could sense she was trying to warn me not to ask whatever I wanted to. So I allowed her to sponge bathe me while I laid in the bed, exposed to the cold room around me. She didn't speak as she dressed me in a fresh set of clothes, only darting her eyes to the door every so often that it started grabbing my attention. Whatever she was warning me of was on the other side of that door and she was absolutely terrified.

"Look at me," I said in such a soft voice that if she wasn't so close to me she would have never heard, "can you read lips," I half spoke half mouthed the words and she shook her head yes, "who is on the other side of that door?" Her eyes widened, almost tearing up at my question and she brought her hand to my shoulder and gave it a sympathetic squeeze.

"Roman," she mouthed back, "he's gone crazy. This man isn't someone who everyone thought he was. He's been tracking you for years, watching your every move and calculating when to take you. I will try to help you escape but I don't know how we will ever manage. Joseph is gone for three months on business and I can't reach him. I am being watched like a hawk because Roman has corrupted some of the men on the inside, that's why I couldn't give you more information last night when I cleaned your head," A small tear drops from her eye and I can't help but want to throw up at what she just told me. Tracking me? Why would this man who I had only seen one time, be tracking me? What does he want from me? The second I get my hands on him I am ripping him to shreds.

Elaine put her hand on my cheek and it brought me out of my thoughts and whispered, "I know you're stronger than this," before she turned and headed out of the room, leaving me and my mind to run wild.

She said years. Roman has been watching me for years, meaning everything he has done upon kidnapping me had been thought and planned through. Does this mean Joseph isn't behind any of this? She said he's gone for three months. If he comes back will he help me or leave me here because I made him so upset?

The door flung open revealing Roman carrying a knife in one hand and a box in the other. "I see you've finally decided to wake up. Been a long week hasn't it?" Is that how long I've been in here for? A week?

"What do you want from me?" I grit between my teeth, tensing my body, waiting for him to inflict the same pain I caused him.

"Do you realize how easy you have it? Do you understand that you get to kill someone and then get to go home and play dress up, work on your trucks and sneak around the world like you don't exist? While the rest of the world has to suffer and work endless hours day in and day out for every penny they make. I take hit after hit for Joseph. I put my life on the line every single day and don't come near what you make in a month or a single assignment for that matter. You have everyone believing you to be untouchable and yet here you are. The great Bugs has fallen! I will kill you, I will Joseph and then I will kill Stryker. I will become the ruler of these empires. I will be the untouchable one swimming in so much money and power I won't know what to do with myself."

Roman paced the lengths of the bedroom endlessly, occasionally stopping to point at me to emphasize what he was saying. I didn't speak, I just stared at him while he screamed at me. I needed to figure out exactly what he wanted. He wants power, and people do crazy things for power.

"Where do you keep it all?" He finally stopped and stared, burning a hole through me. "Where do you keep it all?" He slammed his fist down on the side table causing me to jump a little, "the fucking money! Where do you keep all of the cash you stupid bitch?!" He was mere centimeters from my face, saliva turning into foam at the corners of his mouth.

He grabbed my hair and pulled my head back forcing me to look up at him, causing me to wince at the tenderness from the healing wound now being touched. "Answer me, or I swear I will beat you until you wish you were dead." He grabbed the knife that was now at the end of the bed and started tracing lines down my clavicle causing blood to spill out.

This man in front of me looked almost inhuman. He had such a demonic look controlling his eyes. Like he was a puppet and his master was elsewhere looking and laughing. I didn't recognize anything other than anger on his face as he continued to scream at me and slice away at my body. "Don't be stupid little girl. You won't survive this much longer. I will do this every single day until you tell me where you hid all of your money and weapons because once I have you taken down, your master will fall just as quickly." 

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