Captured Innocence

Chapter 4

An elbow to my ribcage broke me from my daze of glaring out the window, I slowly diverted my eyes back to the sizzling pan in front of me. Slowly I turned all the different meats for the breakfast, while Emmy buttered slices of the fresh bread she had baked in the early hours of the morning.

Most of the men from the first day I came here sat round the table discussing stuff I didn't care to listen to. Once the food was done Emmy dished them all into big bowls shoving them into my hands pointing for me to bring them over.

The men's plates were full to the brim as they piled the food on. I stood awkwardly beside Emmy who had her hands behind her as Vincent put a slice of bacon and toast on a plate handing it to her.

"Isa?" A voice called out to me making me turn my head towards Theo who held a plate loaded with food out towards me. I took the plate mumbling a thank you, Emmy took my hand leading me to another room with a table just as big as the one in the kitchen. This room had barely anything in it not even a window but there was an old looking panting of four men.

Emmy sat down while I sat across from her silently we began eating. A few bites in and my stomach began to hurt and my throat was tightening telling me I couldn't have another bite. I glanced up at Emmy to see her staring at the remanding food on my plate.

"Theo will be mad if you don't finish your food," she whispered out licking her lips a little. Without even asking her I began moving my food to her plate, the look of hunger quickly morphed into shock.

"Eat it please I don't want it," I begged looking at the meat in distaste. She nodded without taking her eyes off of her plate, she was in the middle of inhaling her food while I put more on her dish when the door opened.

Theo stood in the door way, his eyes flickering from my hand that held a fork with some bacon on it and to Emmy's plate. Taking a few steps into the room he grabbed my upper arm before hauling me out of the room.

"We'll talk about this later." He ground out through his clenched teeth dragging me into the kitchen. My heart dropped when I seen Luke sitting in one of the kitchen chairs all tied up, a young woman maybe around seventeen stood next to him bruises covering one side of her face. His eyes began to droop a little and his body was starting to slack making me think that they had definitely given him something.

He made eye contact with me but he was so drugged up he couldn't even open his mouth. Theo's hand tightened around my bicep making me look at him, he was looking down at me in disproval making me roll my eyes once he wasn't looking.

He bent down next to my ear his lips touching the back of it, "He tried escaping Elizabeth by hitting her head against the sink but luckily her brothers stopped him from leaving. He is going to receive his punishment here and you are going to watch."

Bile began creeping its way up my throats when I seen what the girl that Theo had called Elizabeth was holding.

She held a sledgehammer tightly in her hands. Bending down she whispered something in Luke's ear, he grunted unable to respond.

Her knuckles turned white as she gripped the hammer the moment she started to raise it I made a move to run towards Luke. Only for a thick muscular arm to stop me.

It was as if it happened in slow motion, raising the hammer like you would a golf club she smashed it into his shin. Two ear piercing screams shook the room. Luke shrieked even though he was gagged and so did I even though I was hysterically crying.

"Hey! Please stop it! He won't be able to walk ever again if you do it to his other leg!!" I screamed thrashing in Theo's arms. 

"How do you know?" The girl questioned giving me the evils.