DAHLIA POV
I was dying, this ti around I was positive that I was dying!
My whole body hurts, it felt like I had been trampled upon like a thousand horses. There were monts were I can barely rember things or anything that had happened to . Sotis my whole body shut down and I retired to the place where I wasn’t aware of anything. I beco numb to it all, sotis it was good but other tis I beco aware of everything that happened to .
Every cuts, every bruises, every groping and every whips that lash ti at . They also laugh while inflicting pain, their sounds mocking as they did so. They also cursed out anyti they call my na. It was tis like that that I wished that I hadn’t said what I said the last ti. I wished to the gods that I had kept my mouth shut instead of signing my rights away to that sadistic soldier. I wished I had been more selfish with myself and run when I had the chance. I shouldn’t have turned back and tried to save anyone, I should have saved myself first.
Because now, who is going to save ?
No one, absolutely no one. I had long given up hope that anyone was going to co and save . There was no one that was coming to save . The soldier whose na I’ve co to learn was Callum had succeeded in doing what he had promised he was going to do, he finally broke ! Sothing I never thought would happen but it would appear that Callum finally succeeded in it.
I do not know how long I’ve been down here. The pit is where they call it, a place where ti doesn’t exist. Nothing but only darkness. I can barely rember anything here. I do not know what days of the week it was and I do not think I care.
I stopped caring about things a long ti ago!
The sound of keys jingling made crack and eye open and I felt dread feel my body as I heard the door to the gates on my cell open. My body tensed on the ground as I squinted at who was coming. I noticed two figures make their way inside.
"You got five minutes!" A voice snarled and I released a whimper when I heard the voice of a soldier.
The door soon slamd after that, enveloping in darkness but I could feel the presence of soone inside with . I wasn’t alone. I sniffed as I sat up straight, the chains rattling as I did so. "Who...who’s there?" I breathed out starting to get terrified.
"My lady, it’s just ." The voice said and it was strangely familiar, "Loraine."
Loraine? The na sounded familiar but I still couldn’t a na to it. The sound of a match stick getting lit filled the darkness followed by a small light. Bright orange light suddenly filled the darkness and it was as a result of the lantern Loraine had lit.
A gasp escape her lips as she stared at with a look of horror on her face. "Gods above what did they do to you?"
"Loraine." I called again as I scrambled from where I might have known her from in the ss inside my brain.
"Yes." Loraine said as she casually approached , "Do you perhaps not rember?"
I stared up at the woman, my brain still trying to get where I might have known her from. Loraine, Ilyana’s mother! I rember her now and I also rember that she was the one who was responsible for putting here, I rember everything clearly now. The betrayal! It was her, it was her fault!
"You!" I snarled at her.
Loraine’s bottom lips trembled as she stared at with a resigned look on her face. "You do rember?"
Of course, how could I forget? I am being whipped fifty tis a day to make sure that I rember, that I never forget the consequences of my action. Loraine lowered herself to the ground right in front of . I eyed her warily not sure what she was doing. I didn’t ask her to seat and I do not want her to, not after what she did.
"Why are you here?"
Loraine reached inside the basket I had not noticed. She pulled out a warm loaf of bread that slled sweet from where I was. "I brought you sothing."
I eyed the bread like it was a deadly poison. I didn’t collect it from her, instead, I shrank back further into the shoulders. "Why have you brought that? Have you co to poison ?"
"What no? My lady I would never do that." Loraine rushed out but there was nothing she could say that would make believe her.
"But it’s because of you I am in here." I reminded her then cocked my head at her, "Have you perhaps co here to finish the job?"
Loraine sighed but there was a look of remorse on her face as she stared at . "I am sorry."
I chuckled weakly as I leaned back against the moss covered wall. "It’s funny how you keep saying that like you automatically expect everything to be alright."
"I know....I know what I’ve done is unforgivable." Loraine said wrangling her hands nervously as she ca up with a way to justify her acts, "I did what I did because I thought it was the right thing to do. They would have found us anyway. You do not understand how this people worked my lady. They are smart and ruthless. It would have been hell for us if they caught us so I made a deal."
"Yeah that only you and your daughter be spared while the rest of us suffers for it?"
"We are all doing fine. I made the good choice because they’ve treated us better than they did the last ti." She said her voice taking a desperate edge to it as if she wanted to believe her to accept her apology.
I stared down at the chains in my wrist and Loraine followed my sight. She swallowed before she looked away but I could see a tear slipping down her face.
"Everyone except you, I guess." She mumbled before she was quiet.
Humming softly, I closed my eyes as I relaxed back against the wall. I was tired and just needed to rest. I will need to gather my strength again before they returned to dole out my punishnt for the day.
"I’m sorry."
I cracked an eye open only to see that Loraine was still there, still seating with tears streaming down her face. "My apologies Loraine, but I think you have to leave now." Because if I heard one more apology from her, I might just strangle.
Loraine was quiet again and just when I thought that I had my mont of silence, Loraine spoke again. "I am so sorry Dahlia. I did what I did as a mother who protects_"
The rest of the word sounded muffled in my ears. My eyes snapped open and in one swift movent, I leapt up and lunged myself at Loraine. My fingers wrapped around her throat tightly as I held her down on the ground.
I watched as her eyes widen as she clawed at my hands trying to get to release her but I didn’t. I held on to her tightly not releasing her even as she struggled against . Her face turned pink due to the lack of oxygen and her movents were weaker now.
"Please..." She wheezed out, "P...please..." She said but I just squeezed her neck tighter.
I do not want to hear her voice anymore. I do not want to hear any more of her lies. She did this to , she was the one who attacked , she did this to ! She did this, it was all her fault! She took away my one chance to get out of this hell. She took away the only lead I have to get back ho. To get back to my family.
To Reagan, to Heather, Ivana, Nikolai, Ivar, my son who was going to grow up without a mother thanks ti her and now, now, she wants to tell she did what she had to do as a mother to protect her daughter?
"WHAT ABOUT ?" I roared at her, "I’M A MOTHER TOO! I’M A MOTHER TOO!" I roared as I continued to squeeze her face.
Loraine blinked slowly as her hands fell to the side and I knew I should stop. Sothing in knows that I should stop except I do not want to.
The doors to my cell suddenly opened and I heard people rush in but I still didn’t let go. Not until I got yanked away by so guards but even until then I struggled against the. For the first ti I fought back and didn’t stop. Not when they shoved backwards or whipped with a small whip, not when they laid down and kicked countlessly but is till fought back while screaming and I heard one of the guards say sothing like I might have finally lost my mind.
If only he knew how right he was!
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