Captured By Darkness

Chapter 5

Captured By Darkness

Hands tied, arms straightened up  high above me. The rope burns into me ripping into my flesh.

My toes barley scrape the cold tilled floor that's splattered with my blood as I dangle from the ceiling.

Every muscle stretched out to it's capacity my Shoulders feeling as though they will rip out of their sockets at any given moment.

Time is non existent, along with the light trapped here in this dark freezing room. The hairs on my skin prickle up on end and goose bumps dot their way around my practically naked body.

My sticky bloody eyelids are as heavy as my head and I try to think  how I got here, but I can't.

I'm positive I've split my head open pretty bad due to the  constant warm drips  of blood trickling   down onto my forehead. When I twist around my head  its stiff, the dried up blood  cracks  over my skin around the  back of my neck where it's also  clued onto my hair and it hurts. 

The tips stick to my waist Cold and damp and I imagine the colour being  a rotting red instead of gold like the sun.

A scream shatters my thoughts, the whole lower part of my spine stings due to the force of the swinging metal  hitting me like I piñata, Swung forward  on my return I'm met with another hard swing cracking my ribs causing me excruciating pain. I scream a gurgled scream and I try and twist my head round but I can't see a thing.

"What do you want?"  I cry out but of course they don't answer and I'm hit again.

"Stop!" I gurgle  I hear their footsteps splash through my blood beneath me. Finally they come round to my front, they too are a darkness I can not see. I gasp for air steading myself when the tip of the  steal tilts up my aching  face.

Eyeing up the blood splattered shimmering bat I shift my gaze meeting their shining eyes through the black holes of their mask. They pull back the bat holding it with two hands, aiming for my head.  I don't dare move, it's too sore to anyway, my lungs burn trying to catch my breath, but it stops when I hear her voice..

"Sleep tight." .......

Jolting up in a screaming frenzy I can't breathe, the air in my chest is trapped fighting to come out, shaking rapidly I gasp being wrapped from behind into a clutching hold, Nate's voice hinted with worry rocks me back and forth, "You're ok, I've got you."

His strong muscular arms contain me firmly in place, his chin nuzzles into the side of my neck.

"I'm here, You're safe."

My heart races to him touching me but also from my nightmare, I find my breath letting out a cough followed by a cry, Slackening his hold over me I fall back on his rising chest, he pulls me into a smothering hug stroking his fingers through what's left of my hair, traumatized from my dream I seek comfort inhaling his masculine sent pressed onto his chest muscles, disappointed it's him here and not Jamie. "Please untie me." I sob into his damp skin "I can't take it, not at night."

I twist and turn my hands under the pads of the cuffs, his hand covers mine stopping me.

"I will untie you, once you tell me what they did to you to."

"Please Nate, If you have any humanity left, you will. You say you're not going to hurt me but you are by keeping me restrained, just like they did."

I hear him let out a long sigh prickling up the hairs on the back of my neck, about a long silent minute later he unravels himself brining the cold air between us, he presses the touch screen monitor above his bedside table and I hear him tapping in a code, a long beep follows then my cuffs release just like that. I look up at him still shaking from my ordeal, before I can react in any way his hands replace the cuffs gripping tightly.