BOUND BY CREED

TAKEN

2022

Cambridge estate

Large professional news cameras surround Desirae as she sits in her family estate living room, nervously fondling the curls of her hair.

Desirae shifts her eyes to the finely dressed news reporter, watching her as she begins to clean the lens of her glasses and places them along the bridge of her nose.

"Are you ready sweetheart?" The new reporter asks Desirae, solidifying the first line of questioning.

"Yes"

"OK let's begin."

"scene one, take one. BOUND BY CREED" The production assistant says as he runs out of frame.

"Can you please state your name and age for the camera? And read the queue card behind me." She says giving Desirae a reassuring head nod."

Umm... I'm Desirae Ryhs Cambridge. I'm 23 years old, and I'm a victim of s*x trafficking.

"Can you start from the beginning? Take your time."

I got abducted when I was 14 and was held captive, for 8 years it's only been one year since I've been free, and being free has been difficult,

It took everything from me my life, my freedom, and my innocence. I didn't get to grow up how I wanted. Have the typical but impactful high-school Experience, Go to college, achieve my former aspirations. I don't know who I am now without him.

"Without who?" The news reporter asked perplexed.

"Giovanni CREED."

"so tell me how your abduction happened."

"It all began in late fall, I remember almost all the details leading up to the abduction. again I was 14 when it happened, And It was on a Saturday afternoon. And I was home alone as usual."

"My dad was at work. He was always working and he was always gone.

So my mom and little sister were doing the monthly grocery shopping. Me being me, I was extremely bored. So I decided to entertain myself with a movie."

2013.... Cambridge estate

Desirae sat on her soft therapeutic mattress, her sheets and comforter smelling as though freshly out of the wash. She admired her warm blue covers as they snuggled between her toes, she was beginning to feel hungry and it was getting dark out. And still, no one was home. She walked downstairs and headed to the kitchen as she dragged her hand along the handrail of the stairs, she got to the kitchen flicked on the light, and walked to the fridge. growl~

Dessirae's stomach bellows with hunger. She grabs an apple, a quick snack to hold her over until her mom comes home to cook dinner.

Desirae bends her back up to close the fridge and she feels this presence behind her like a towering shadow ready to devour. She turned to look to see what it was and there was nothing.

She walks around the corner and out of the kitchen to go back up to her room, and a big hand grasps her arm pulling her in; with her back against the wall. She screamed with fear. The intruder's hand covers her mouth, his hands sweaty like a nervous schoolboy. "Oh," he says whispering in her ear "It's ok I'm not gonna hurt you." He says as I desirae struggle to wiggle out of his grasp.

She wasn't going to just sit there and do nothing, like those dumb blondes that play in those terrible scripted scary movies. So she jabs him in the stomach with her elbow. It stuns him for a second, but he tightens the hold he had on Desirae even more. Ok, she thinks to herself, you can get free, and get to somewhere safe, maybe even to a phone. Jabbing him repeatedly he falls to the floor with a big thump, shaking the ground beneath her shaking body.

Thinking quickly Desirae starts running, Her feet hit the cold wooden floor, with every step. Her legs carry her with perseverance like she was at one of her track meets, she hits the street and she runs as fast and long as her body can handle. Desirae finally Stopped at a dimly lit ally as it was becoming night. Her nerves began to settle, thinking she was free from the grasp of a thirsty predator. Oh God, how wrong was she, because the next thing you know, a sharp pain, from behind Goes

shocking through her neck.

It felt as though a hundred bees were stinging her at once. Her vision blurred, and her head fell heavy, she was out cold. When Desirae awoke, she was blindfolded and her hands were bound by a rope placed behind the small of her back, she could tell they had been tied together for a while because her wrist hurt, and she cried in distress. Her mind racing with millions of thoughts. As she's falling in and out of consciousness, Desirae begins feeling this burning sensation all over her body. Pain seeped into her chest. Whatever they injected her with her body was feeling all of it. The van came to a halt, which caused Desirae to jostle around the floor of the van, banging her head in the process. She frantically looked around hoping to find something to cut her loose But she felt nothing...

Desirae hears the van door start to come open and she starts to panic squirming with fear. WOOSH. The doors to the van swung open.

"If you try anything it's not gonna be pretty for you." a man said.

2022 San Quentin State Prison California......

News reporter: "What was your role in the Cambridge abduction, and many others like her."

JAMES'S POV

The thing is, that was all I knew my whole life. My father taught me all I know about the business and as far as Giovanni, he's like a brother to me, when our fathers died

during a big drug war we both took on our father's mantles because that's what we were taught, me the right-hand man and him the BOSS. In a way I felt like I had no choice. I answered to my father so I answered to the BOSS.and I did as I was told. But if we're being honest the real reason why I didn't stop. Is...I guess- you can say... I was SICK. I began to like the power of it all. I liked to see them squirm; whether it was women or men begging me for their life.

I walked around the side of the van and opened up the doors.

"If you try anything, it's not gonna be pretty, DONT LOOK UP," I said, pushing her head down. I slung her over my shoulder and walked into what we called the warehouse. Not caring, I threw her down on the nasty floor, right in front of the boss.