Abductor

Chapter 11

“Find them. Find them now. I know she's here, some of her things are in one of the rooms. She's here. FIND her!” his voice was followed by the sound of heavy boots. Then suddenly, I actually felt instead of hear the closet door open. A few seconds of silence then it closed and the footsteps moved off. We waited, a second, a minute, an eternity maybe. Then he nudged me to move but I couldn't. I just couldn't.

“I know Kay, I know. But we have to. You have to move.” I shook my head.

“I don't understand,” I dare not go louder than a whisper, “he's supposed to be in the hospital. He had severe injuries, he-” I tried to steady my breathing. “I-can we stay here for a bit?”

“Until the entire place is surrounded? No. we have yo go now. Plus we'd suffocate, the space is too tight.”

“But-”

“Listen to me. I know this must be killing you but if we stay here we'll never make it out together. This is the part where we flee. It ends here. What happens after is purely on what you decide but right now we just have to go.”

I didn't argue then, I just allowed him to lead me. I had no idea where I was going so he told me the directions. There was so much going through my mind as we crawled through the tunnel. I couldn't even think straight. I tried hard to just let it all go and follow him. And I did, holding on to his voice as if my life depended on it, and it did.

“Ok here we go,” he said and I stopped. He let go of my hand and my mind kicked into overdrive again. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. He held my waist and I relaxed as he eased himself past me. He pushed at something before us and some light spilled in. I blinked. 'C'mon,” he took my hand, got out and pulled me out with him. There were flashing lights somewhere in the distance, but all I could see around us was trees. I think we were in the middle of some forest.

“Now, we run.”

It's like we were two teenage kids in a horror movie, running for our lives from the creature scripted to kill us. We dodged around some trees, over a log and through some bushes, all the while never letting go of each others hand. We ran so hard and fast my feet began to burn and I legitimately could not catch my breath. I stopped and gasped for air, my chest hurting like hell.

“Kay-lee!”

“I'm sorry I cant, i-”

Suddenly a figure came out of the bushes and grabbed Fred, hauling him into the darkness. And before I could scream or run for him, the same thing happened o me. The thick iron-like arms gripped me firmly and I was lifted into the air and over a shoulder, his hard collar bone impaling my abdomen. I kicked and shoved at him but he didn't budge. I couldn't even fight him of, I was so out of it. I groaned and just allowed him to carry me, all the fight going out of me.

***

The man carrying me flung me to the floor, knocking the air out of me. I chocked and looked up. Lloyd and a few other men were before me. More like a dozen. We were at the back of a huge house and when I noticed that there were no windows I knew that it was the house. I saw Fred caged in the guy that was beside Lloyd arms.

“Do you have any idea what I had to go through to find you?” Lloyd said hoarsely. “How much money I had to cough up to pay these guys. When they told me they tracked and interrogated everybody and had to beat almost all the movers to get something. And we did, out of one. And I immediately acted. It was real hard to find this place but when he told us you were being kept here I rushed out of the hospital and over here.” He inclined his bandaged head towards Fred, “If I'd known you were with a boy, a gardener to be exact, I'd have send someone a lot sooner. I never thought you'd do something like this. We grew you better and as a father, I-”