Love Thy Neighbor (40 page)

My head remains lowered and I watch in slow
motion as a tear drop falls into my lap.

I hear my captor’s chuckle and devastation
breaks my resolve. I burst into sobs and my captors laugh
louder.

I lose it.

"You fucking assholes! Getting off on a
petrified girl? What kind of men are you? I'll tell you what kind
of men! The kind that no one likes so they have to stick together
or they'll be left at the bottom of the food chain to fend for
themselves like rabid fucking dogs!" My chest heaves with rage.
Both men have stopped laughing and wear matching scowls. I look the
hot one in his hard cold eyes and screech, "You are lower than scum
and I fucking hate you!"

I realize I’m hysterical and burst into
laughter. Laughing hard, I yell, "I'm locked away in a shithole!" I
laugh so hard I’m wheezing. "No one knows where I am!" I snort
through my chuckles. "I'm going to die alone!"

Laughter forces its way out of me for a good
minute slowly fading out until I finally stop.

I'm hollow. Empty. And numb.

The mocha skinned man asks, "Feeling better
now?"

I don't look at him. I keep my eyes averted
and shake my head once. I whisper, "No. Not at all." I finally look
up at him. "How would you feel if you'd been kidnapped?"

His lip twitches and he looks over at hottie
commando. Hottie commando’s eyes meet mine. "You tied to a
chair?"

I look down at my bare wrists and shake my
head.

He fires another question. "You been slapped
around?"

I look him in the eye and shake my head. He
nods in agreement.

I blurt out a meek, "I just wanna go
home."

He raises his brows. "You're so fucking
annoying that there is nothing more I want to do than to let you go
right now...but I can’t." I fight the urge to call him a
motherfucking douche canoe and glare down at his shoes, lip
curling. He leans back in his chair and states, "You haven't been
kidnapped, Delilah."

Eyes wide, I lift my face to look into his
and ask, "Who are you?"

Hottie commando's lip twitches. "The person
who just saved your life, baby."

What the mother fuck?

-Willing Captive, late 2013