I got him to pass me his keys, he has a bottle opener attached to them, it’s too big for the stud that needs popping but it’s worth a shot. I hooked it over the steel button and pulled as hard as I could, tug, tug, scrape, scrape. Plink. It popped off and rolled into the sludge in the corner. I wriggled the overlapping metal, and shoved the key beneath it and I managed to get it open. It’s only my left foot, but before I could do the left or my wrists, I heard the footsteps coming to the door; I quickly slipped my foot and the shackle underneath me and sat on them with the keys hooked on the shackle. He approached Claudia and examined her abdomen, obviously seeing if she had gained any weight, and she winced at the instant he touched her. He grabbed at some of the flesh and she screamed at him.
“GET AWAY FROM MY BABY!”
We all sat there shocked, she was pregnant, this is really going to end badly, I can tell. She then started trying to kick him as he held his hand to her skin.
“You’d better not be lying, you little slut.” He looked at her with disgust. “Don’t think that just ‘cos you say you’ve got a little thing inside ya’ that you’ll be gettin’ out of here any sooner.”
When he left, she told us how it happened.
“My husband and I were never able to have children, my two year old son is adopted, we had recently had scientific treatment, and they managed to get me pregnant, this one’s a child of both of our blood. We have been married for five years and we have known each other for twelve years, just the little nudger means so much to me.”
She definitely needs to live more than we do. Maybe tonight I’ll work on the shackles... If I can that is.
