Dangerous Deception

Ch. 15: The Actual Plan

Kayla's pov

        I smiled and I looked up at a woman as she hummed my favourite song. I was lying down on her lap while she played with my hair. We were in a small house, sitting at the fire place. There were not much furnitures, just a few frames, some books, and some toys. But it was home. We were home.

       "Mommy, can you sing it for me please," I heard my tender voice say. The woman chuckled, and it was the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

       "Of course darling, anything for my sweet muffin," she pinched my cheeks and I giggled.

       ♪"Tallyman Tallyman, he keeps count
          Tallyman Tallyman, don't step out
          If you're good, then he pays
          If you're not, then he slays"♪

       And I enjoyed the song as she continued soothing me with her voice, almost drifting me off to sleep. Then we heard a loud knock on the door, jolting us.

       "Mom–"

       "Shh," she pressed her index finger against my lips. "Let's play hide and seek," she said. I looked towards the door. They knocked again.

       "But mom–"

       "Remember what I use to say?" She asked and I nodded.

       "Always obey the Tallyman," I said.

       "Good. Because he always keeps count," she said and took me to her closet, covering me with clothes, "And now he says...," she paused and looked into my eyes, "...don't step out,"

       She shut the closet door, leaving me with the dark.

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        I groaned, fluttering my eyes open. Was that a dream or a memory? I couldn't tell, but it did felt real. I slowly looked around me. I was tied to a chair in a small empty room, with a small window that was beyond my reach. And even if I could reach it, it was too small for me to escape. A metal door was on the left side of the room, close to the wall I was facing, which was a bit far from where I was. Then I spotted a CCTV camera at the corner of the room. There was a tiny red light to show that it was on. They had stripped off my weapons which includes the dagger I always had with me. I cursed. That dagger was the only thing left of my birth parents. The only thing I had on me was my ring. I sighed.

         The door opened and my kidnapper walked in. "You're awake," she said, "took you long enough,"

         "Seeing you just makes me wanna go back to sleep," I said.

         "Nah I don't think so, considering all you did was sleep for hours," she said. That's not right. The small light that shone from the window told me it was nighttime instead of daytime, considering everything that happened. Unless....

         "How long was I out?" I asked. She smirked.

         "You know, it's so sexy seeing you do all those maths in your head. But I'll save you the stress," she said, "you've been out for two days,"

         "What?!"

         "We were actually thinking you might not wake up, seeing the way you passed out at the warehouse. So we called a doctor," she pulled out a chair I didn't notice before from the corner of the room and sat down on it. I hope they didn't find out about my condition.

         "Turns out, the doctor doesn't even know what caused it. He said for some reason your brain had shut down completely, and if we hadn't called him sooner, you would be in a coma,"