Tempting Danger and An Offer One Can't Refuse

Chapter 11

Obeying was the only way, I could be out of the chains. My hands and wrists were sore and they were hurting from the torment of being a prisoner. Rose eyed me as she unlocked each one and it was in that moment that I knew if I so tried anything or fight, I'd be dealing with her. Just one wrong move could cost me my life and trust with her. She wasn't one to be reckoned with just like Elijah, but I could tell he was far worse and the one who had done this to me and possibly her as well. Though, I dared not ask or question anything of Rose, my mind wouldn't stop, but I kept it shut.

I had a hot bath, with bubbles. It was soothing and relaxing.  As soon as the hot water touched my skin I let out a sigh of relief, I was glad to have a bath, it took some of the weight off of being isolated in an attic, with no one to talk to , no sound, not another voice to hear and comfort me through the pain of being kidnapped and taken away from my mother and my brother. Most of all fear, still was there within me. I wanted to scream, I wanted to shout loud, the same as I had when I realized where I was and what was happening to me. I left like I was being kept like an animal. Cruel, he was, the stranger, I thought as kind, and could do no wrong, and certainly nothing like this. Was I the only one? Were there more women, he had done this to? Had he ever....killed? What was he going to do to me when he grew tired of me? Still, Rose, said, that Elijah would let me go, if I behaved and did as I was told even tonight, for dinner. Whatever he asked me to do, and whatever he wanted, I had to do. But, I just didn't want to think about what. I just prayed he wouldn't hurt me, as he had done, when he turned into that...creature form. He told me, he was a vampire. I at first didn't believe it, thought he was mad and Rose as well, but, it was real, He was real and she was Real. I kept trying to think that I was asleep and couldn't wake up and that I was in a coma, that I was dead or at least dying or probably was that this was hell and my punishment for ......I couldn't think of anything bad I had done. Never, have I been bad, I was human, of course, I might have been bad when I was little and might have told stories then, and such but why, was this happening to me? Of all people? WHY? If there is a God and I believed in him and his son Jesus Christ, why was I being punished like this? I know, I did nothing wrong, I didn't deserve this. No one deserved it. I wished I had privacy, but, I knew there wasn't a chance, Rose would leave me unattended. Even, if she was a woman, she was a stranger, I wasn't comfortable with her seeing me naked and with nothing on and enter the tub. I was embarrassed and felt even  violated more with Elijah, him being a man and a stranger. I brought my hands to cover my breasts hoping and praying he would never come up here and see me naked when I changed and when I took a bath. It would just make me feel so sick and throw up, as I had done, and had an accident. Fear shook me and I felt so afraid, and numb. I had my eyes below the bubbles and water that covered me legs and over my bare breasts, as I looked to see Rose, preparing my dress and walking to the bed and setting this on the vanity dresser and setting blow dryers and curlers on towels. I just sat silent pretending that this was not happening, that I didn't have to go downstairs to join...him. The man who did this to him. 

The Pretender.

The man in disguise.

Kidnapper

Stranger

Monster

There were so many words I wanted to just shout and say aloud, but I knew I couldn't. I had to block out my thoughts as best I could or, I would be punished or possibly killed. Blocking my mind from Elijah and Rose, was the only thing of survival I had. It would be hard but I had to  as best I could, and focus on something, even if it was just one thing, a subject or object, I had to stop them from reading my mind. I got soap with shaky hands as it fell in the tub and I reached for it searching. Rose turned to look as I was doing so, but I was sure she was looking.