The Cage (Book 2)

I Was Betrayed

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I Was Betrayed

I realized stripping down to my briefs was a bad idea when the cell's door suddenly opened.

A shaft of light fell over my writhing, sweating form. I looked up to see a guard leering over me.

My heart gave a terrified thump.

I knew by the look in his eyes what he wanted. That he was the one who slipped the aphrodisiac into my meal. I'd seen that same perverted, godless look before in Kevin's eyes. Half-hooded eyes filled with deviant desire, mouth hanging half open in vile anticipation, and hard cock tenting the front of his uniform pants.

The liquid in my spine froze.

It happened quickly.

He reached for me with his clammy, shaking hand.

Something from within me seized control. I reacted with a speed that surprised even myself.

I grabbed his wrist and twisted. He roared like a wounded bear and stumbled away from me.

I pushed myself off the ground. My legs threatened to give from underneath me, but I kept on standing.

Poisoned or not, I could take on this fat bastard at least. The drug would wear off eventually.

Clutching his twisted arm to his chest protectively, he whimpered pathetically, his face red from a combination of indignation and humiliation.

His umbrage was nothing compared to mine.

I wiped the sweat from my eyes and glared daggers at him. How dare he think he could lay hands on me so easily?

"I'm not that easy. I dare you to try me again, motherfucker." I spat.

The cowardly guard fled.

He left the cell's door wide open behind him.

I stared at the open door, or rather the freedom that lay beyond the door, contemplating escape with a heaving chest.

Temptation found its way into my heart instantaneously. My chest tightened with the overwhelming need for freedom -to be free of this box, to be able to walk and run and jump, to have a conversation, to eat decent food sitting at a table like a human being, to be treated like a person.

I actually missed seeing other people's faces instead of walls and darkness everywhere I looked.

But where would I go? This was a cell block in an island prison in the heart of the Pacific Ocean after all. I'd already attempted escape once before, and look where that got me. If I did it again without Schneider's protection, who knew what they'd do to me.

Schneider.

My heart throbbed and I audibly gasped; it felt like a heart attack. The burning in my heart became much more unbearable than the burning of my poisoned body.

Thinking about him was too much to bear.

The sense of betrayal was too much to bear.

I was betrayed.

It was evident by now and there was no looking away from it, no denying it. False hope would no longer sustain me. My trust in him was betrayed. And I no longer had the King's protection.

Such awesome promises he'd made! He'd pretended to offer me the world, and had taken and taken and taken, and I thought he'd give just as much. Now I realized just how foolish I was.

Where was he now?

I'd been abandoned.

I closed my teary eyes and turned my back to the metal door.

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They left me alone after that. No one bothered me again.

I should have been overjoyed, but the idea of it being another trap; that they were hatching up another plan to assault me, nearly drove me to suicide. I pushed it to the back of my head. Or at least tried. I spent another week in solitary, suspicious of every meal delivered through the flap. All the worrying and second-guessing made me sick with a high fever. I became delirious.

I'd never hallucinated in my life, but here I was, seeing Schneider standing over me, smiling in that tender way of his.

I called to him as I shed tears of happiness, thinking I hadn't been abandoned after all, and that I was wrong for doubting him, but he never replied.

I kept calling and calling, and then I started begging him to answer me, but instead, he turned his back on me and left me all alone in the cell. I started to cry.

A part of me knew I was delirious, that I was very sick, but I couldn't seem to make the other part of me understand.

Hours passed by.

Or was it days?

Once it became clear that I was about to expire if left untreated, I was taken to the doctor's office. An old man examined me for less than thirty seconds then injected me with something that I suspected was designed to reduce my fever, followed by an intravenous drip. As I lay on a bed in the doctor's office, a needle feeding medicine into my hand, I stared up at the white lights hanging on the ceiling.

For the first time in who knew how long, my mind was blank.

The doctor came into the room with a guard.

"Are you sure?" The old doctor, sounding incredulous, asked.

"I'm positive." The guard confirmed with a firm nod of his head.

"So the king is gone." The doctor sighed.

My heart seized.

A million feelings pumped through my body at once.

Schneider was-!

"Yeah, he escaped. Along with Cade."

Escaped?

He'd escaped prison?

A shaking sigh released by my lungs deflated me, and I sank into the bed. I wanted to cry, but it seemed that my eyes had gone dry.

He'd really left. And he'd really abandoned me here.

My entire being darkened. Something in me was eclipsed.

In the hour and seven minutes it took for the drip to empty into me, I came to a resolution.

I would no longer need anyone's protection.

Not Schneider's. Not anyone's.

If I was meant to stay here for the rest of my miserable life, I was going to do it from the very top. 

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Some things are going to change, but for the better or for the worse, only time will tell. 

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