Hidden Love

Chapter 7

I pick up my phone to check the time. It's a few minutes past midnight.

You know when you're just living your life and a past memory hits you in the head and now you can't stop thinking about it.

Well that just happened to me.

Flashback, Melanie 11 years old

I lay on the hard bed staring up in the ceiling.

Im counting all the cracks and bullet holes for the 48th time today.

I have to do something to pass the time or i might go insane.

Once when I was younger I asked him for a toy but he just punched me and whipped my back with his belt for asking such a stupid question.

So I learned to never ask for anything.

I've been in my room for a long time now. I can't tell how long because I don't even know what time it is, and there is no windows in my room since it's down in the basement.

But I would rather be in here than with Igor or his men.

They do bad things to me.

Igor says it's to make me stronger, that if I'm not controlled by pain then I can truly become powerful.

I flinch at the sound of my door being kicked open.

3 of Igor's men walks in and they grab my body carrying me out.

I don't like the way they are touching me but I have learned to live with it, this is pretty much a regular thing.

They put me down and I look around to see that I'm down in one of the torture rooms.

Igor I standing in front of me smirking viciously.

"Hello дорогой"Igor says stepping closer to me.
(Sweetheart)

I just stand there waiting to see his plans for me today.

Yesterday I had to fight 5 of his assassins and if I didn't win then I wouldn't get any food for 2 days.

Luckily I did win but my body is filled with bruises and wounds from both the fight and the torture I suffered 2 days ago.

"Bring him out" Igor says loudly but not to me.

2 of his men are dragging in a little boy probably a year or two younger than me.

I just stare wide eyed at the seen in front of me.

The Russians, well including me too i guess, do a lot of bad things to people but not usually to kids.

Igor takes out one of his guns and the hand it to me.

"Kill him" he says completely unbothered.

Is he seriously gonna make me kill a little boy.

I'm not even surprised, because Igor is a completely disgusting person.

He has made me kill people before.

But I can't do it.