The Billionaire's Captive

Torture continued

It’s another day in hell. I wake up in the corner of the hall. Servants are passing by; each in a hurry, up for their arrogant boss’s murky deeds. I get up quivering on my feet, cover myself with the night robe, see around, still thinking silly how to get out of this place, I haven’t lost hope yet, I’m sure I’ll find a way to get out of this abyss. After a moment, the same old-aged woman approaches me whom I encountered first.

“Daughter, you spent the whole night on the floor, if you must say I can show you a room where you can rest or change, only if you want to” Mrs. Jules voiced

“Look Miss, I, I want to get out of this place. Can you please help me with this? Please” Rosanne pleaded in a lower tone

“Dear, its better if you give this hope up, Gabriel, I, I know him, I have raised him like a son, he’s stubborn but if you act calmly, maybe he will let go of you, just stop resisting that may worsen the things for you”

Just when I was consistently trying to convince the old woman to help with the escape, I sighted the most arrogant and stubborn man on earth walking down the hall towards us, in a caramel three-piece suit, with the front two buttons of the shirt opened to expose the hairy chest. His face was still, almost expressionless as if decency was the only thing glued onto his face and personality. My face got red with fury and rage, I wished I had some knife in my hand and slit his throat right in the middle of his majestic kingdom.

“Good morning Gabriel” Mrs. Jules voiced eagerly

“Good morning Anam Jules, how are you doing?” Gabriel voiced smiling

“Just alright son, your breakfast is ready”

“What are you doing here, go, change and join me for breakfast in a moment” Gabriel stated

“I’m not going anywhere; I’m not your servant to comply with your demands” Rosanne yelled

“I’m not used to noisy mornings you know, Anam please take her and get her dressed” Gabriel voiced

“Get off your hand, I said I don’t want to” Rosanne twitched Jules’ hand as she tried to take her

“Enough, no one talks to my workers this way, I don’t allow that, go upstairs and change” Gabriel exclaimed while grabbing Rosanne’s arm, then signaled Jules and walked away to the dining hall

I stand crying and sobbing in fear and hatred, then Mrs. Jules patted me and took me to a room, I went to the washroom, and when I returned, I saw Mrs. Jules stalking through the wardrobe teeming with designer clothes to choose an accurate dress for me. She took out a blue floral long frock and took it before me smiling and asked me to try it on. I took the dress sighing, went to the dressing corner, put on the dress, and came out.

“You’re looking beautiful dear” Mrs. Jules flattered

“Come sit, I’ll settle your hair down”

I sat down in front of the mirror, looking at my pale face, and eyes dooming in with dark circles. Mrs. Jules combed my hair; a rare soothing event that has happened so far since yesterday. I closed my eyes and remembered the times when my father used to comb my hair on the weekends.

“There, I didn’t tie your hair dear just put on a small clip so that you might feel easy”

“Umm Mrs. Jules, what do you think for how long am I going to stay here?” Rosanne asked while gulping in the cries

“I don’t know dear, no other girl has been captivated like this before, they came at night and then left in the morning, no one would ever stay like this nor they would be forced by Gabriel like this, I mean I don’t know what is it with you, and what does he want?”

“Other girls, what other girls”

“I must not, we should go umm Gabriel must be waiting for you dear, come on” Mrs. Jules voiced while opening the door

As I stand up, Mrs. Jules gave me a pair of peach heels; I wore them and started following her downstairs. As we entered the dining hall, I got amazed for I have never seen such a big dining arrangement in my life. A huge table with some 50 chairs around and the bastard sitting straight at the frontier chair gawking at me up to down with a playful smile. Mrs. Jules took me straight up to him and went away. Then a servant came and pulled out a chair just beside Gabriel, I stood gazing at it, and then moved away and pulled out a chair away from him and sat down silently. Then the servants came and uncovered the dishes. I got even hungrier looking at dozens of dishes around me; bacon, waffles, roasted eggs, creamy yogurt, and a lot more which I was witnessing for the first time but I sat silent without touching them, of course, I couldn’t take in a single bolus in front of that man.

“What is it? You didn’t like the breakfast?” Gabriel spoke in a lower pitch while eating

“I’m not hungry” Rosanne whispered

“As you must say, Lin take her to the room and don’t dare to offer her any food till I get back” Gabriel voiced in a jeering tone, cleaning his mouth with a handkerchief

“As you say Sire” Lin replied while grabbing Rosanne off the chair and taking her away

“I hate you, you bastard, I hate you” Rosanne yelled while being dragged out of the dining hall

The maid grabbed me to the same room, pushed me in, and locked the door from outside. I ran screaming and smashed on the door for as long as I could but no one bothered to listen to me. Then I threw away the heels, went to the bed crying, threw myself on the bed, screamed, cried, and moaned till I went to sleep. After sleeping away for hours, I woke up to the sound of the door’s opening. It was about the afternoon. The same maid approached me, pulled me up while I was half-conscious, and took me barefooted dragging by the arm to the dining hall. The filthy man was again sitting on the same spot in changed clothes, provokingly smiling at me. The maid pulled out the chair next to Gabriel and forcibly made me sit on it.

“I suppose you might be hungry now” Gabriel voiced

“I’m not. I won’t eat next to you, you filthy human” Rosanne exclaimed in rage

“Take her Lin, get her back at dinner” Gabriel stated

“I will rather die than eating next to you, you hear me I won’t eat with you” Rosanne shouted while Lin grabbed her

“You will not eat anything unless with me” Gabriel spoke aggressively

“Hell with you, you bastard, you a**hole” Rosanne shouted as the maid pulled her out of the dining hall

Gabriel spanned his neck, took a deep breath, and then started with his lunch. The maid took Rosanne to the room, pushed her again, and locked the door. Rosanne stood at the door scolding for some time then picked up everything that she could hold and thrashed them on the floor while yelling. Hours passed by and Rosanne stayed lying on the floor crying desperately. Around 8 pm, the maid again unlocked the door, came in, got startled seeing at the room’s distorted arrangement, and then tried to approach Rosanne.

“Don’t you dare come to me, I’ll slit your throat b***h, get lost, get out” Rosanne shrieked

The maid went out in fear, went to Gabriel, and stated the whole situation.

“Take food to the room, I’ll see it myself” Gabriel voiced

“Yes Sire”

Gabriel walked upstairs, went up to Rosanne’s room, looked around the mess, smiled, and then approached Rosanne, who was sitting in the corner beside the vase with a piece of glass in her hand. The maid came in, Gabriel signaled her, and she put down the food on the table and got out closing the door.

“Are you really planning on dying or want to get out of this place alive huh?” Gabriel voiced sitting on his right leg

“I should rather die than living in this humiliation” Rosanne voiced looking on the floor with teeming eyes

“I don’t want you to die” Gabriel voiced politely while getting closer to Rosanne

“You’ll have to pay for it, you’ll face the consequences, and I’ll make you suffer like you’re making me suffer” Rosanne voiced sobbing

“How will you do that?” Gabriel asked provokingly

“I, I, my brothers will not leave you, they will come looking for me and they will make you pay”

“Your brothers huh, then, brothers who left you after your parent's death just to ease them off your burden huh”

“What are you talking about, get out of here” Rosanne shouted jerking Gabriel away

“How about that time, when your brothers left you with that a**hole who tried to r**e you thrice” Gabriel voiced walking around and hands in nightdress’s pockets

“Stop it, you bastard, get out of here, I don’t want to hear a word”

“Oh and how about that time when your elder brother bribed a boy in the college to frame a case on you to expel you from college so that the money would not be wasted on your studies, what do you think?”

“How do you know that? You’re lying” Rosanne yelled sobbing

“Am I? I know everything about you Rose, everything, you name it” Gabriel whispered getting closer to Rosanne’s ear

“You don’t know anything, you disgust me” Rosanne voiced sobbing

“Avert it as long as it pleases you, but you ain’t getting anywhere nor anyone is coming to get you, you’re alone, the decision is yours, bother to eat the food”

“Just go” Rosanne voiced turning her head away

“I’ll see you at breakfast tomorrow, sweet dreams Rose” Gabriel voiced jeering and then went out

I sat for a while in a rage, then looked at the tray, went up to it, grabbed it, sat on the bed, and ate a little while crying. It may not be too much surprising that he knows everything about me but it is much more depressing to rewind the past events and remembering the unfairness and discrimination done to me by my brothers all these years. Gabriel is right; I have nowhere to go, no one to go to, I’m alone. When will life stop shitting with me? I’m over it, God. Help me, help me get through this.