His Dark Love

Chapter 1

I needed a plan to get out of this cold cellar and back home. Not that there was anyone waiting for me, I’ve been living on my own for a couple of years and haven’t spoken to my parents since they seperated. How did I end up here? Well I’m still trying to piece that together myself. The last thing I remember was being cornered in an alley on South Street on my way home. My name is Lucy by the way, Lucy Cole. I live in a beautiful city called Xenon, surrounded by turquoise blue waters and warm sand. The most popular beaches in the world are here and that’s why I rented an apartment right on the beach front, with a beautiful view for my paintings. It was small and modest but enough for me, I mean I just needed to eat, sleep and pee right? 

I was on my way back home from getting some groceries and took my usual route through South Street to my apartment building, I walked fast seeing as the sun was setting and I’m a pretty paranoid girl, convinced that danger lurked around every dark corner. Little did I know how right I would be. 

As I took the corner into South Street, someone was waiting for me in the shadows of sunset and I nearly bumped into him. “Excuse me sir, I’m so sorry!” I yelped as I jerked myself backwards to prevent knocking into the stranger. 
“You will be.”, he stated coldly and all I could see was a smirk as I tried to get a look of his face, someone grabbed my long black hair from behind and wrapped a large hand over my mouth. 
I kicked my legs up to try and break free and swung my plastic grocery bag around to try and hit one of them. If they wanted me down, I was not going to make it easy for them. The tall stranger with his sadistic smirk came closer trying to grab my legs and I kicked him right in the face. He grabbed his chin as he stumbled back and licked the blood off his lip, laughing at my actions. “You’re a fighter, but don’t worry sweetie we’ll break you and turn you into a good little girl ‘kay.”. 

I struggled to breathe as the man behind me let go of my hair and gripped my right arm with his, digging his nails into my skin and I dropped the grocery bag. The smirking stranger stalked towards me again and punched me right in the face, making my vision blurry for a few seconds. I couldn’t even focus on the pain because the shock of what had just happened caught me off guard completely and all I could think about was breaking free before another punch was landed in my abdomen causing me to crouch in pain. 

Who are they? Am I going to…

Breathing became too much of a struggle, my ears started ringing and I blinked a few times before losing sight of everything and losing control of my body, falling to the ground. 

That’s all I managed to put together in my memories before ending up in this cold, metal, prison-like room. My throat hurts and I have no idea how long I’ve been here, probably about a few hours. My phone was gone and my shoes, who takes a lady’s shoes dammit! I felt something hard on my upper lip and realised it was dried up blood, from my nose to my lips.

Also I was chained by my ankle to a disgusting metal double-bed. Why would they feel the need to chain me, as if I can break down the metal bars of this cell and walk right out? Nice one guys…

Everything was dark in here and I assumed I must be a level underground because there was not a single window anywhere in sight. I closed my eyes and sat down on the ground trying to think of what the hell just happened to me when I started hearing footsteps echoing closer to where my cell was. Is this where it all ends oh great one? In a cell like an animal? I’ll surely negotiate something with them, maybe they just want money or something. 

I was cut off from my thoughts when two large black boots appeared in front of my cell bars and as I scanned up I saw two long, strong legs and, “Keep your head down bitch, you don’t need to look at me, just listen.”, said Mr big boots. His voice was cold and emotionless, full of authority and very controlled. Guess there’s no negotiating myself out of this one. 

I did as he said and lowered my head but the curiosity was killing me, who are these people?