My Sin City

Chapter 4

Emily***

My eyes slowly opened, and my brain was foggy

and disoriented. I wasn’t in my room, I knew because this didn’t even look like a room. It was small and compact, and… it was a car!

The memory of the harsh smell hit me, like I could still feel it up in my nostrils and it sent a sharp eye-stinging headache to me.

I tried sitting up, but I winced in pain, I had been tied up, and both my legs, but not my mouth. I guess the car was soundproof. There was no need to shout, I had already accepted my faith.

I thought of my parents and the sadness and trauma they’d go through. They’d miss me dearly, their only child. It was my mother's face that made me tear up. I didn’t want to cry, I had cried enough today, and without any dinner, I felt like I was crying out my insides. I tried holding myself, but each time I did, I cried all the more, and I was angry, I wanted to be stoic in the face of this mystery person.

I thought of Jason and Sophia, I wanted to say this was a very nice punishment for them. They’d carry this guilt for the rest of their lives, but I didn’t want to punish them at the expense of mine.

I tried looking out of the window, but it was all still pitch dark, and I couldn’t tell if the car was moving or not, except when it went over a slight bump on the road, and I felt my tummy lurch.

I tried regulating my breath I didn’t know had heightened. I took in a large deep breath and was welcomed by a familiar smell. “Coco mist” I heard myself say and the person behind the steering turned back to face me.

His eyes locked onto mine, and I knew the night was dark, and that I was delirious from hunger, tiredness, anger, sadness, name it, I mean, who the f**k wouldn’t be scared knowing that you were being driven to death! But those hazel eyes, I thought were the prettiest eyes I had ever seen.

I wasn’t in any way scared of those eyes, it even made me curious. What did my abductor look like? He had a mask on, with only his eyes left out.

And with those eyes, I could bet he was handsome.

Emily! I called myself, trying to caution myself. But if this was going to be my end, why be sad?

I decided to focus my thoughts on other things. Outside was pitch black, but I still looked out, trying to master this new environment, just in case an opportunity to escape presented itself to me. Though I knew it was impossible, none out of the 15 girls had ever escaped. How was mine meant to be different?

After what seemed like an endless night journey, the car came to a stop, I noticed by the sudden jerking of the car when he stepped on the brakes.

Before getting out, he gagged me, though he didn’t need to. I didn’t have a single strength left in me. I was so weak, almost fainting. He really didn’t need to, the environment was more than quiet, except for the sounds of the night. I was sure we were miles away from town, a very secluded environment. I couldn’t see a single neighboring house in sight.

He came out first, I waited for him to open mine, to take me to my faith, but after a few minutes of waiting, I peeped through the windows, he was making a call.

I stayed there, looking out, and I thought, if I wasn’t going to die at his hands, I was probably going to die from the scorching thirst in my throat. Soon I was off because of how weak and tired I was.

Waking up, the bulbs glared back at me, and I winced raising my hands to shield my eyes. My restraints were gone. My vision regularized, the room was…my thoughts trailed as I rubbed on the ankles where I had been tied and felt an oily substance on them.

I couldn’t think of what it might be as the aroma filled the room. I couldn’t mistake it, “cookie dough.” My tummy growled.

I could hear footsteps approaching, I ran back to my initial position, trying to calm my breathing, but I couldn’t help my heart, beating like it’d explode the next minute.

The minute the door opened, my breath caught in my throat, I knew I was right about those eyes!

His physique was imposing, through his tee I could see the outline of his lean muscular frame, his skin was warm, the golden sun kind of warmth. I could go on and on admiring this man! but was cut short when he asked, “Do you mind?” Pushing the plate of freshly baked cookies to me.

Was I in heaven? I thought, and lord had sent a Mr hot to compensate me for the betrayal I went through, cause whattt?

“I..y..yes,” I replied, stuttering not because of fear, but because I was mesmerized by his beauty, I even felt intimidated by it.

Had the abducted girls seen how handsome he was and decided not to come back home? It was quite possible, cause after what I went through, I didn’t mind spending a few months here, eating freshly baked cookies with Mr. Hot.

“If I had wanted to harm you, I would have done that a long time ago, and definitely not with cookies,” he said, his masculine voice reverberating the room. I instantly put the cookies in my mouth, thinking, he had got me all wrong, who was talking about harm? Baby I’m right here planning my future with you, I almost gave out a chuckle.

“They’re really nice,” I tried bringing up a convo, to break the awkward silence, but he didn’t reply back.

After a while, he said with such suddenness that it startled me “You kept whining, saying you were thirsty and hungry, the water here isn’t neat, so I decided to warm those up for you.”

I wondered if this was the face of the man who had haunted my town for so long. His face looked so angelic, I thought I was hallucinating but I wasn’t.

My curiosity quipped, and lots of questions bombarded my brain. But I figured out one thing, I wasn’t able to hear his cane sound cause It was raining. No two things I learned, this mystery man wouldn’t even hurt a fly! Yes, you read right, I saw him, looking at a fly that was attracted to the bright bulb, he just cupped it in his hands and let it go through the window.

Was he really the murderer the whole town had been looking for?

My thoughts didn’t let me hear him” I said I’d take you to the rest of the women by tomorrow, judging by this rain, it’ll be dangerous moving out this night.”

I was left to this confusion, The other women were still alive? Why has he held them all these while? Where are they?