The Enforcer's Bride

Chapter 3: Hannah

I woke to the sound of buzzing. Was there actual buzzing or was there buzzing inside my head? I slowly opened my eyes to overhead fluorescent lights, a headache pounding at my temples, and assessed my surroundings. I was lying on a dirt floor in a holding cell surrounding by cement walls with a solid metal door in one corner. 

I stretched out my body, checking for bruises. My captors had already stripped me of my outside clothes and dressed me in a long cotton shift. That meant they had to see me naked.“f**k!” I yelled as I jumped up and ran to the door. Locked. “Let me out!” I screamed, “You have the wrong girl! Please just let me out!” All of a sudden I felt like I was going to be sick. I collapsed on my hands and knees, retching and sobbing into the corner. 

I heard the door click open and immediately shut. “When I asked if you had any plans, I didn’t think you’d really leave me waiting at the temple.” A voice crooned. I immediately turned around. It was him. Jude. My heart stopped in my chest. After eight years he looked handsome as ever dressed in an Enforcer’s training outfit, cargo pants, a white t-shirt and combat boots. Except this wasn’t a regular Enforcer’s uniform. 

“Head Enforcer?” My eyes grew wider.

 “I had a lot of time when my intended suddenly disappeared.” Jude’s serious expression never changed. 

“My parents?”

Jude c****d his head, “Hannah you know the rules. You committed treason. What do you think happened to them?” Another wave of nausea hit and I retched into the corner. I knew I would be punished for my actions, but my parents? I tried my hardest to keep my composure in front of Jude, but tears kept slipping out so I kept facing the corner. 

“Gabriel and Abigail?”

 “Your sisters have been rehomed to a more suitable family. Abigail is married with two children, and Gabriel is pregnant with her first.” Jude leaned up against the cell wall and crossed his arms. I slowly stood up and leaned against the wall.

“I can’t stay here, I won’t stay here.”

“That is your choice and choices must be made. But know that you only have two choices, submit to me or face the same punishment as your parents.” 

“No Jude, I won’t do that I’ll escape again before I do either of those!” I screamed and hit the wall. Jude crossed the cell in two strides, and pinned me up against the wall. “Would submitting to me be the worst thing in the world?” he whispered in my ear, tracing his index finger from my collarbone to my belly button. My body betrayed me and I could feel myself growing wet at his touch. “I’d take care of all your needs, all you have to do is say the words,” he leaned his pelvis into mine and I could feel the thick hardness behind his zipper. I softly moaned, my body craving his touch. 

“No, I can’t do this,” I whispered. 

“Why? You had no problem with another man touching you,” Jude crooned. f**k. They know about Andrew. “Get off me you ass!” I shoved Jude away, and he chuckled. “You picked up some foul language beyond the gates dear, but don’t worry. Some time in re-education and the Lord’s light will shine within you again.”

 “Leave Andrew out of this!”

 “So his name is Andrew? That’s a good start, I can’t wait to meet him.” Jude smiled at me as he opened the door and left. I threw myself at door, banging my fists and screaming “Don’t you dare! Jude! Come back here you jerk!” Then the lights were turned off and I was completely alone again. I broke down sobbing. My parents killed because of me and Andrew might be in trouble too. It’s all my fault. Everything is my fault. 

I wiped the tears from my eyes and took a deep breath. I had to get out of The Province and I didn't have a lot of time to do it.