Still Holding On

Chapter One

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I scream as I feel Ric drag his knife down my forearm. "Stop! Please!" I cry as he pulls the knife away and smears the blood on it against my cheek. He's been doing this for three weeks. I'm tired of being chained up in the basement. I need to see something other than these bloody walls. Literally. "Darling, you had sex with another man. You need to be punished. Do you like the salt I put on the knife?" He asks and I scream as he pours salt on my wound to make it burn even more. "I never did anything with him! I was afraid he'd treat me just like you do! I may have loved him but that doesn't mean I wasn't afraid to be with him that way. I was too scared!" I lie and he chuckles as he examines me. Please, just believe me.

Please, let one thing go right for me. "You were actually that scared. You thought that he'd hurt you and he would. He's a master and you are an awful submissive." He laughs and cuts me out of the ropes causing me to fall to my knees. Perhaps it wasn't a good idea to taunt Ric in the beginning. "What's a master?" I ask and he laughs as he drags me out of the basement. "Now, I'm convinced. He has a specific type of woman for his standards, angel. He likes obedient women. Not you." Ric explains and pushes me in to our doctor, Luca's, room. "Rose... come on, over. I'll fix her up and send her to the kitchen when I'm done." Luca says and Ric kisses my hair before leaving.

Creepy bastard. I limp over to Luca and he helps me up on the bed. "Alright, take it easy, Rose. No need to go overboard. You may make the wounds worse." Luca warns and I scoff. As if it matters. I'm as good as dead. Luca goes to touch my waist and I jump away from him in a panic. "Relax, Rose. You're okay, I'm not hurting you. He cut the side of your waist and I need to inspect how deep it was... can I cut your shirt so I can see?" He asks and I hesitantly nod. Normally I'd tell him to go away but I can't let myself bleed out. Luca carefully cuts the side of my shirt so he can see the wound. "Yup, he got you good. But it's nothing that stitches and a bandage won't fix. Do you... do you mind if I cut your jeans?" He asks and I shake my head no.

He has to do his job or Ric will kill him. Ric killed the last doctor, Marco, because he didn't properly clean my wounds. Granted he created them. "It's been a long time, Rose..." He tells me and I just nod as he picks up some cotton and alcohol. "Okay, I'm not going to bother trying to tip toe. I need to know if you had sex with Alek Bytchnovik. Given your history with Riccardo... you may have contracted an STD or gotten pregnant." He spouts out and I laugh at that. There is no way in heaven or hell that I have either of those things. "No, Luca. Just please... clean my wounds and make Penny bring me some clothes." I reply and he nods as he starts to text Penny before cleaning my wounds. This is it. This is my life now.

I scream as I throw the bottle of Jack against the wall. God dammit! "Alek you need to calm the hell down!" Ivan yells and I scoff. He can say that because he never had to hear that his girlfriend was being tortured! "He's torturing her!" I scream and he slams me against the wall. "You don't think I want to kill him for what he did?! For what he is doing?! But I can't do anything until he is standing right in front of me! So stop acting like an over grown baby and help me come up with a fucking plan!" Ivan yells and I sigh as I push him off me. "Are you okay, boss?" Anton asks as he comes in my office and I scoff.

Am I okay? That is a loaded question. "No. We need someone else on the inside. Just one man will not do it. I need two or three. Anton go get some hair dye. At least eight. Two for each different color. We're sending some men in." I snap and Anton rushes out. "What the hell are you doing, Alek? That's crazy. If you think that changing someone's hair color is going to make them unnoticeable then you're insane. You have lost your damn mind." Ivan remarks and I chuckle. I lost my mind years ago. "I lost everything three weeks ago. All I had was her and now I don't even have that. Yeah, I lost my damn mind." I snap and storm out of my office. I'm going to kill him even if it's the last bloody thing I do.