Collateral

"Lets play a game Lea. Do you like games?" I looked up at my captor with a defiant glare. He was small and thin with a bald head and dark beady eyes. He wore a blue shirt with the sleeves rolled and a pair of smart pants. I looked around the basement for a way out not that it would matter seeing as the ropes around my wrists and ankles were cutting off my circulation. "Ah come on, play along. Don't be boring. Now, I'm going to ask you some questions and all you have to do is answer them honestly." He tapped his fingers together and looked at me with a look in his eye that I couldn't quite describe. I looked back at the man who had decided to get his revenge by holding a seventeen year old girl hostage. "I won't tell you anything you sick bastard!" I screamed at him writhing in my chair trying to loosen my bonds. He looked angry that I'd insulted him. He walked over to me making a tsk noise. He stopped a few steps in front of me. He had an angry glint in his eyes. I should not have said that! Stupid Lea! I mentally face palmed knowing what was next. He lowered his face to mine so I could smell his rancid breath fanning my face. I tried to move my head to the side but he grabbed my chin, hard, keeping me in place. "Don't you ever call me that again you disgusting little whore." He ground out through his crooked, yellow teeth and then a menacing smile graced his lips. My head snapped right before I could even blink and a searing pain filled the left side of my face. I looked up at him trying to forget the pain in my face an said "Let the games begin."