ME AND HIM ✔️

Pt. 40

Nadine's POV

THE SCREAMS of Rue coming from the other room filled my ears. I hear yelling going back and forth,

"Stop lying!"

"I'm not, please! Nadine!" She's being tortured and it's all my fault,

"RUE!" I yell in anger, worry, sadness, and most likely above all, fear.

What are they doing to her, why are they doing this to her. How could I not be able to protect her. I could've held her closer to me, fought back, shot as soon as we saw the guys standing there.

But I couldn't.

I don't know why, but I couldn't. Shooting the guys would've just led to Rue getting killed. This can't be happening, dear fucking lord.

I'm willing to risk my life, just to ensure that Rue keeps hers. What the fuck. I would never say that, dear lord please help me now.

"Nadine!" I hear Rue yell. I yank on my restraints and move around rapidly in the chair.

"RUE! RUE ARE YOU OK?!" I yell in panic.
I rub the ropes together, trying to make some sort of friction to cut the ropes.

"Fuck," I whisper to myself, "What have I done."

More screams fill the silence, and I desperately try to get free.

"I'm so sorry, Tesoro." I whisper to myself.

"Interesting."

I jolt my head up at the sudden presence, the bald pale man stands there. The man I swear I recognize, but can't remember.

"What!" I spit at him, "what the fuck could be so interesting right now"

"I'm Leo," he says waving his hand.

"I don't care who you are, where am I!"

"You care about that girl, don't you?" He asks, completely ignoring my question. He raises an eyebrow staring at me.

"That's none of your concern."

"Hmm," He walks towards me and bends down to reach my level, "They won't stop, you know."

"What do you mean they won't stop?" I ask.

"They won't stop messing with her until they're satisfied with her answer."

What the fuck.

I find myself yanking the rope, desperately attempting to get loose. I let out a frustrated groan as I feel a burning sensation form on my wrist.

Rope burn.

"Let her go." I demand. I see his lips twitch into a smile, he takes the shades that he's wearing, and slips it down until it's resting on the tip of his nose.

"You know I can't do that without a prize in return" he says, a smirk forming.

"What do you want?" I spit.

"I want to know where your Queen is. Your mother, where is she?" He asks.

What does he want with my mom? I mean- it doesn't matter anyway, she's probably dead to be honest, "I don't know." I answer honestly.

He lets out a deep chuckle before turning back to me.

I see a sudden movement before I feel a sting on my cheek. Leo holds his hand, "Whew, that was a good one." he says laughing. He shakes his hand and winces.

I ache to hold my face, but the restraints make it impossible.

"What the fuck!" I yell, "I told the truth, why the hell did you slap me!"

"Because why not"

"Fuck yo-" His fist colliding with my left cheek, interrupting me. My vision goes blurry for a few seconds. When I look back up, he's staring down at me. A sick smile on his lips.

I lift my head up and look him in the eyes,
"ok, ok, I'll tell you, just come here." I whisper the last part. He shuffles over to me and gets close to my face.

"Now tell me." He demands, I nod my head and get a little closer.

He backs away surprised as blood mixed with saliva now covers cheek, "agh putain de merde." He mutters wiping the spit off.

I smirk and lick my lips.

"Alright, you wanna play? We can play." He walks over to the side of the room towards a table. He starts digging through the cabinet before pulling out a long package. He sets it in the table and pulls out his pocket knife, he cuts down the middle of the package, slicing the tape right off.

The box opens and a smirk quickly makes its way on his face. He pulls out a series of different daggers, all different but could probably do the same amount of damage.

"What, you're gonna do target practice on me? I'm so scared." I say sarcastically.

He lifts an eyebrow and takes his glasses of completely, "Not on you." He looks towards the door, a scream cuts in. Rue's scream.
"Her." He says before grabbing the daggers and walking towards the door.

"Wait- fuck, wait!" He stops mid walking and slowly turns around, "just please, wait." I beg.

He lets out a surprised sounding laugh, "Did you just say please? For a girl? A stupid redheaded girl?" He chuckles shaking his head."What has happened to you." he says in disgust.

As I'm about to answer, a miracle happens.

I haven't realized that the rope tied around my hands, were tearing.

I guess all the rope burn paid off.

Leo's eyes widen as I look at my swollen wrists.
He runs towards me, pushing me back, my legs are still tied to the chair, so as I'm going down, the chair is too.

He lands on top of me and immediately tries to tie my hands back. I throw a punch into his left cheek and he stumbles back.

"Whew, that was a good one, huh?" I ask, sarcasm laced in my voice.

He quickly gets up, stumbling a bit as if he's drunk. He holds his cheek and laughs, "You got a good arm." He scoffs, "let's see if you have anything else up your sleeve." He comes towards me, walking heavily.

I quickly untie the ropes around my feet and stand up.

He throws a lunch with his right arm, but I quickly avoid it by ducking and coming back up just to swing my arm into him.

That does it. He falls to the ground, landing in his chest. His cheek makes a smacking sound as he hits the floor.

That's gonna leave bruises.

I hear a few groans come from him as he lays carelessly on the ground.

He tries to steady himself and stand up, but I lightly place my foot on his back and immediately, he goes back down.

That's what I thought.

Ok Rue, I'm coming for you.