Secrets Hurt

19

I open my eyes to him opening the door and coming towards me with a tray of food. My stomach grumbled at the smell of food, he dropped the plate on the ground close to me,

"Patra has other kids with my dad, why didn't you take them? Why me?" I sob,

"The perfect Karla, isn't so perfect after all, wouldn't you just love that I set you free and take your sibling, you're selling your siblings out," He says chuckling darkly,

"I didn't say that..." I begin to mutter but he interrupts,

"You would love that wouldn't you, to not be here right now, right?" He says and I nod,

"She left us for you! She tossed us away to join your perfect world, it just has to be you," He growls at me and walks out.

I begin to sob as I realize what I just did, is it bad of me to wish they were here in my stead. I have had a lot of shit happen to me, my life is a shitstorm and then this, I couldn't believe that I hinted that he take my siblings instead. I cried myself to sleep.

Few hours later I awaken and then I picked at the food, eating just bits and pieces as I had lost my appetite. But then after eating, I start to become sleepy. Too sleepy, I then realized that he had drugged the food.

Fucking retarded asshole.

...

I whimper in pain as I drifted into consciousness, I groan as I open my eyes and realize that I was strapped to a table. Immediately I start to struggle against the restraint but scream out when I roughly brush my injuries from the previous night against the restraints.

"Finally, I've been waiting for you to awake, Karla," Dave says,

"Please, just let me go," I beg,

"Wanna hear something interesting? I reached out to your family, and your dad and Eliza are gonna come to get you with the ransom money," He says,

"I thought you said you didn't want a ransom?" I said, I probably shouldn't have,

"I don't want the ransom Karla, I don't need your money," He mutters quietly,

"Please just let me go then, I can arrange a one on one meeting between you and Patra and you can hatch out everything,

"Karla, I am letting you go," He says, he was so deathly calm,

"What?" I whisper, confused as fuck, as I stilled against the restraints,    "Why am I strapped to this table then?," I ask, still confused,

"Just wanna tend to ur wounds, I want you to be able to walk to your family, thinking they have you in one piece," He says as he pulls out a ball of cotton and soaks it up in something that smelled like disinfectant or so.

"You're just gonna let me go?" I say, still confused and hissed as he dabbed my injuries with the cotton,

He just cleaned my injuries and didn't respond. He stitched the ones that required stitching but didn't give me any pain relief. When he was done he made me swallow a pill and I was out like a light

...

I wake up to someone shaking me and then I become more aware of my surrounding, the drug seemed to dull my senses, just as I could make out what all the noise around me was about, I hear my dad...

"Dad?..." I croaked, then I feel him remove something from my face and he proceeded to untie my hands and legs.

"Karla, baby are you okay? Can you stand? The ambulance is on its way" He says and just as soon as he says that I hear the sirens of the ambulance.

"Stay awake baby," I hear my mom say and I was so happy to hear her voice,

"I'm so happy you're okay baby, God I was so scared of not seeing you again..." Patra began but broke down in tears

"Baby I'm so happy you're okay," My dad says

The paramedics come to take me away to assess my injuries.

"Mummy can you stay with me," I ask, she nods blinking tears away,

The paramedics immediately swarmed me and they were all over me taking my BP and some medical stuff as cops tried to get a statement.

"After my event crashed, I had walked out to get some air and that's how he found me, he took me to a place and tortured me for fun," I start crying while giving my statement,

"I'm sorry ma'am, please try to stay calm ma'am," The young officer taking my statement said in a soothing voice,

"You could tell he was having fun doing it," I sobbed,

"And then he just let you go?" He asked,

"Yeah, I don't understand that, he said, I want them to think they have you in one piece," I say, thinking,

Dave's POV

Within minutes of taking the pill, Karla was out like a light. If not for her parents sin rubbing of on her, Karla was a pretty girl and in another world were all this pain wasn't in, I would have been her friend or a cool stepbrother, but she's my ticket to inflicting as much pain as possible to her parents. I tie her hands, tying her shut eye with a blindfold, I then carried her into the truck, and drove to the drop off site. On getting there I carried her down and laid her on the ground. I looked at her one last time and then proceeded to leave.

...

The look of joy on her parents face as the found her sickened me, I clenched my fist as I looked at them through the sniper's zoom, but I was pleased that they were this happy.

I listen in on my listening device that I had implanted on Karla's clothe.

"Karla, baby are you okay? Can you stand? The ambulance is on its way" Karla's father says, untying Karla and removing the blindfold. I begin to hear the sirens of the ambulance.

"Stay awake baby," I hear a woman say

"I'm so happy you're okay baby, God I was so scared of not seeing you again..." My mum said,

I clenched my fist at the motherly tone and sincere pain she was showing. How can she be this motherly to someone else's child but not hers. I begin to set my sniper in position as I lay there for the perfect time to take my shot when people weren't around her as much because they were all blocking a perfect shot.

"So he just let you go?" The voice of the officer taking Karla statement cackled through my earpiece,

"Yeah, I don't understand that, he said, I want them to think they have you in one piece," I hear Karla from her tone, I knew she was thinking, she was pretty smart and then I watched as a panicked expression came on her face.

"He's not done with me," Karla exclaims, panicking,

"Smart girl," I say and take the shot.

The whole seen went into chaos,
"Shots fired, I repeat, shots fired," I hear the officer taking Karla's statement shout, I watched the deathly expression on her family's face and it all felt good to me and then I begin to pack up and leave.

Karla's POV

Him releasing me was confusing, he wanted revenge for his sister's death, why did he let me go? I thought he wanted me dead? He wanted me dead..... He wanted my family to know how he felt, thinking his sister was recovering and safe but then was brutally taken....

"He's not done with me," I exclaim out loud, panicking,

"What do you mean ma'am?" He asked

And just I was about to reply, I feel a force pull me backwards and all I can feel is this searing pain as I begin to black out, I hear everybody thrown into chaos, my mum is screaming my name with so much pain that I wanted to stay awake for her, I feel people touching me, an oxygen mask placed over my nose and then I fade into the darkness.