Luca's Challenge

Chapter 12. Getting caught

Luca and I start running as quick as we possibly can, his grip on my wrist doesn't fault and our sprint stays up as we hear thumping behind us.

I feel incredibly weak, vulnerable and guilty, I just left Shadow there. At least I know he's in good hands.

I am a pretty quick runner myself so I seem to be keeping up with Luca, Luca suddenly yanks me behind a car as we tumble to the ground I see he has his fingers to his lips gesturing for me to be quiet.

We hear the steps of feet stop, my heart pumps even quicker until we hear the footsteps retreat somewhere, Luca slowly raises his head over the car to see where the men were.

"Here they are, they are over there!" We hear a male voice yell out.

Luca swears and we continue to run somewhere, I have no idea where we are going but as long as we can get away from them I'm fine.

I see we are running behind a store, when we reach there we just stand there paranoid while Luca peeks his head around the corner of the wall while I stay attached to him like a monkey.

"That was really close."  He blows out in a shaky breath while releasing his iron like grip from my wrist which I start to rub.

"You think?" I say while eyeing my wrist, it has bruises already forming on it but I don't complain because he didn't mean to do it, I don't even think he has realised.

Turning around we are welcomed by 4 men, I scream out as Luca grips his hand around my waist ready to run around the corner of the building until we see another man standing there.

Luca's eyes are darting everywhere looking for a way out.

"Hello little girl, we are going to have fun with you." One of the men say.

"You will not fucken touch her." I hear Luca say threateningly. He sounds so protective .

I feel Luca's grip around my waist leave, and see that he is getting dragged by two men until I see one of them hit him straight in the head knocking him out. I scream out.

"No! Stop!" I yell desperately.

"Your turn little girl, we aren't allowed to hit you." The man in front of me sneers.

But instead of a blow to the head I feel a cloth being shoved into my face, I thrash around willing myself not to breathe in. I run out of breath and have no choice but to breathe in when I suddenly feel tired, everything starts dotting black, my peripheral vision starts to close until all my vision starts to shrink up till I see nothing.

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I wake up from a dream gasping.

I turn over on my bed to see that this is not my bedroom neither is this my bed. I wasn't dreaming? Standing up I feel my bear feet touch the cold timber floor, looking around the room I see that it's a mediocre sized room with 2 doors. I'm guessing one is the exit and one is maybe a bathroom, in the corner I see a walk in wardrobe full of clothes, woman clothes.

The room's walls are a plain grey and the room has no windows, it's very cold not only in the sense of the temperature but in the atmosphere. This seems like a house not a home.

Walking to one of the doors I open it to see a bathroom, I was right. The bathroom has both a shower and bathtub lined with washing products.