Twisted Souls

Chapter 9

Aathira

My head hurts and my joints and limbs feel numb as I open my eyes from sleep. My room is pitch black with darkness and I search for the window to check whether I have let the curtains down. I turn as much my body could allow but I find none. I try to sit up and being fully awake I realise my state.

I couldn't feel any clothes on me. I'm completely naked.

I feel a fur cuff is locked around my wrists and ankles. I close my breast with my right hand and try to sit up pushing on the floor with my left hand. The floor feels like it is carpeted but I could feel soil underneath it when I pressed my hand on the floor. My movement gets restrained and I hear the sound of metal giggling before the realisation hits me.

My hands and legs are bound together with chains.

I sit up, pulling my legs up and cross my ankles, covering my private parts. I adjust my eyesight to the darkness and look around the dark place but there is not even a single beam of light to check how the place looks like. I hear a clicking sound and a light flame appears from a lighter.

Subconsciously, I move backwards and pull my legs closer, covering myself from the person who is responsible for my state. My back hit against a rock surface and the flame moved towards me. I pull my hair front covering my chest, lower my hands covering the sides of my breast, wrap my hands tight around my knees covering my torso and I lift my crossed ankles covering my womanhood.

The flame moves upwards, probably above six feets and lights a torch on the wall. The torch lightens some part of the place where I'm kept and I mentally check whether I have covered myself properly. The first thing I see is the hand and face ... no masked face of my abductor. He lowers his hand and takes a step back before looking down at me. It's a half mask that covers only the lower half of his face and there is a space for him to breathe out through his mouth.

Mr Brown Eyes!!

Looking at his eyes, my memory from earlier rushes. I was waiting at the location he had shared. The driver was not ready to leave as the place is deserted but left after he received a trip. Within five minutes Mr Brown Eyes arrived and I got into his car before I fainted.

He crouches in front of me and places a bag to his left but instead of feeling afraid, I feel safe.

Why am I feeling safe when he has done this to me?

"Why did you do this to me?" I look up into his eyes.

"This is how our week is going to be. That's why." His eyes stay on my face and don't travel down. "Also, I don't want you to escape before you get to know everything. You are too clever and brave."

"Why would I try to escape when I came to meet you willingly?" I wasn't expecting him to take me to a private island or a famous tourist spot to enjoy a week with him. "I could have gone with you wherever you have taken me, even if it was a desert or forest or a cave."

He cocks his head to his right and lifts his left eyebrow. I look around myself within the spot until the light reaches from the torch. It's only rock and sand and a couple of feets away from me, there is a vertical box.

Has he kept me in a cave?

"Told you, you are very clever and bold." I looked at him, shocked, wondering how he guessed what was running in my mind, correctly. "And that's your bathroom. It has a water and drainage supply. Your chains won't come in your way of walking and the main chain that is bounding you to the rock can reach only upto the toilet."

"You said you won't touch me. I trusted you and came to..." He chuckles, interrupting me. "If you had trusted me, you could have stopped when I begged you to stop. Also, I used scissors and forceps, not even the tip of my finger touched you."