The slow drip sound of water hitting the ground is what wakes me. My eyes blurry as I open them to my surroundings, bright lights above me making my eyes hurt as I turn my head, my neck is extremely stiff as I try to figure out where I am before my eyes fall on Mara in the cage next to the one they have me in. Like she was some dog and not a child.
“Ah about time you woke up thinking you would be out a little longer though” Says Demetri, as he runs a baton along the steel bars, the noise making my ears ring as my head pounded from whatever it was they gave me.
“Quite the talker that daughter of yours, if she wasn’t so cute I would have killed her by now, but her temper really is that of her father’s don’t you agree Laura?” He says before I spot her sitting behind the small cage Mara was in on a mustard coloured lounge, she was wrapping a bandage around her arm and looks up when he questions her.
“Yes the brat bit me, like a savage” Laura spits at me.
“Let her go, she is just a child” I croak out my throat dry and scratchy like i swallowed razor blades.
“Can’t do that, the party is just getting started and you two will have him walk right into my trap” Demetri says tauntingly
“My dadda is gonna make you bleed” Mara says in a sing-song voice.
“Is that right?” Demetri asks, kneeling in front of the cage she is in.
“Not, you. Her, you will burn” She says and he presses his lips in a line before standing.
“Quite the imagination she has” He mutters to no one in particular.
“She is right, by the time my husband is done with you, there will be nothing left”
“Why? Because I took you once again, I survived last time. I will again, it will be your husband that pays for what he did to my wife”
“Not because you took me you twat, because you took her. They will reign hell down on you for that” I tell him before coughing. Laura looks at Mara nervously as she plays with the velcro on her shoes, pulling it on and off. The noise makes my teeth ache.
Looking around I could see a set of stairs leading somewhere, straining my ears I could hear footsteps above and someone opening a door. The sound makes me laugh. Bloody fool we were in a house, I could even hear cars passing by if I listened carefully, just an ordinary house and he thinks they won't find him. The mark on my neck will ensure they will.
“How long have we been down here?”
“About two hours has passed since I kidnapped you, must say though I am shocked you are awake I gave you enough sedatives to knock you out for a few days”
“Mumma is having a baby” Mara says and I groan that was the last thing I needed her to tell him. Demetris' red eyes snap to me and he cocks his head to the side listening. His dark fringe falling to his nose before he blows it back.
“Hmm interesting, could explain why you are awake then” Though Laura paled at the information.
“But you gave her wolfsbane” She shrieks ,making me wonder if the thought of me being pregnant sickened her, yet she would take a child? Guessing by the horrified look on her face it does.
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