His Private Property

6

I woke up in the darkness. I didn’t know where I was but the smell around me made sure that I was not in my room. It was someplace with some dark and it reeked of some horrible things the rusty smell lingered in the air. The smell of blood was all around me making me puke. I was not able to contain the disgust that made my stomach melt due to the decaying smell and I puked all over the floor. The darkness in the room was so much that I was not able to make anything around me. I was dry heaving and when I tried to stand up so that my vomit didn't catch my clothes when I found myself bound to the chains. My arms were chained to either side and my legs were also chained together making me not able to move. Fear coursed through my body as the realization came to me that Lucifer had caught me running and Grayson made that clear to me not to run as I will not be able to run away. I felt so stupid as I thought about what had I done. “Help me” I shouted to the top of my voice hoping that there would be someone who would come and save me. I was not able to stop the silent tears flowing down my cheeks. I was sure that Lucifer would be so pissed and he would probably kill me now. I was picturing the rage in his eyes when I heard the screeching of the door nearby and a little light came in with the opening of the door. I looked around in the almost empty room to find some kind of door or a window. I didn’t know how long I had been in the room and there was no way I was able to tell that whether it was day or night. After a few seconds, I heard footsteps approaching me as they got heavier by the step. After a while I figured I was only able to make its outline in the dark. The figure moved and came in front of me. The spicy smell radiating from the figure made sure that it was Lucifer. I was able to recognize him by only his scent. He didn’t say anything for a while. “Well look who’s up,” he said in a voice laced with anger and humor as he was enjoying looking at her all tied up. “Why” it was all that I could say when I saw Lucifer descending down to come face to face with me. “Why?” he said in disbelief. “Why!” he growled as he snatched my hair in his strong hands making me look up at his face. His hold on my hair was strong. I thought that my neck would snap from the pressure that he was applying on my head but he loosened his grip a little but not leaving my hairs and making me look at him. “You ran and now I have to make sure that you know what happens to the bad girls who don’t listen and broke rules,” he said with anger radiating from every word. “You can’t leave me down here” I whispered just beating around the bush so that he would just take me with him but he was taken over by anger. “Why shouldn’t I Need? You broke my rule and now you have to face the consequences.” I shook my head to make him understand that it was not my fault. “You don’t understand-“. “I don’t want to understand you did a crime and now you have to face the punishment!” He stood up and moved. I tried to stand but the sprained ankle made a jolt of pain flow through my body and shrieked in pain and I fell down again. I saw him stop for a while but then he moved and closed the door stopping every ounce of light that was coming in the room. I didn’t know how long I had stayed in that place as there was no light to track my time in there. I had been in the darkness for a long time now and the only thing that was keeping me sane was my thoughts and sleep. I forced myself to sleep when the thought started to wander too deep and dark. As far as I knew no one came in not even to give me food. My on and off headache was making me force myself to sleep. I started to remember the times when I didn’t finish my sandwich or the last slice of pizza. Though I had been sleeping, I was still tired. I lowered my head to take a sip of water from the bowl that was in the left corner but my weakened state caused me to fall headfirst in the water and make it spill all over the floor. I was not able to move myself to the side so as not to wet my clothes. I was not able to believe my f*****g luck as I lay here in soiled clothes as I was not able to pull my clothes out of the way or just move to the corner to do my business. I felt like an unkempt animal. I let out the tears that had been streaming down my face for as long as she woke up to the same nightmare every time. There lying in filth I wished I was dead as I thought by dying I would be able to see my mother. Yeah, that would be nice I thought to myself as my eyes closed. The door creaked open slowly and some light came into the darkroom which made me open my eyes but immediately I shut them to close out the light. When I heard footsteps coming closer I opened my eyes again slowly to see who was coming. Before looking up the same spicy smell engulfed her and she knew that it was Lucifer. When I opened my eyes fully to see the same blue-gray eyes looking at me I swear I saw a bit of remorse in those eyes but it quickly changed into a smirk as he looked at me. “Learned your lesson baby girl”. “Yes,” I whimpered as he had broken me. I was not able to stand a single second in this room. He roughly grabbed my face in his hard hands ``Say that you won’t run” I looked him through my lowered lashes and for a moment I thought of hitting his face with my head and running out of this room but being in this room have killed my determination and she didn’t have any energy left to run and it would earn her more days in this dark horrifying room. “I won’t run,” I said with a raspy voice due to lack of water. I turned my head away from him as she didn’t want to see his face so close to her. He hooked his arm under my arm and made me stand up and then he turned me around so that I had no time to brace myself for the impact and I fell straight into the wall. The ache in her stomach was minor. As I stood up I noticed that the pain in my ankle was gone and the only pain that I was feeling was the tingle in my legs as I hadn’t stood up for a long time. I chewed at the inside of my jaw while he was working on the cuff on my wrist. I knew that he could smell the urine that was on my clothes and dried up against my thighs. I was embarrassed as he was taking off the cuffs on my feet but I knew that he did this to me so had to deal with it too.We started to move to get away from the darkroom. “How long had I been there,” I asked Lucifer once we were out of the basement. I wanted to know to which extent I had been punished to make sure that the act of running again wouldn't ever come into my mind again. “Not long enough,” he said in an emotionless tone. The panic rose in me as I heard his words “Please I am so sorry” I started to cry “I can’t stay any longer in that place please”. I begged him as it was for my own mental health to be away from that place. “Come on” was his only reply as he turned and I wasted no time in following him. I looked at him as I was amazed by how he can muster all his emotions and don’t give away anything. I so wanted to get out of my soiled and stinky clothes. The bright light that was coming from the stairs was making my eyes hurt but with every step, my eyes were getting used to the light and I was thanking God for the light. As we moved upstairs all I wanted to do was to go to my room and have a long bath. I started to move to the stairs that went to the first floor where the room I was allotted was but Lucifer pulled me towards the dining room. I didn’t want any more punishments so I followed him to the dining room. I stood in horror as I saw the scene in front of me. The dining table was filled with people who were now looking back at me. I was stuck in my place as I saw Lucifer move and sat on the head of the table to resume his meal. Grayson’s head was bowed down as he was embarrassed to see me like that but Rose and Hornet were looking at me with disgust on their faces. “You look like s**t” it was Hornet that said that I wanted to run and as I was going to turn it was Lucifer’s voice that stopped me “You must be a hungry baby girl. I have food here for you” he motioned towards that floor where two bowls was placed one with chopped up food and one with milk in it. “Come on baby girl eat your food” Lucifer snapped towards the food. The humiliation and embarrassment were at the peak now. I wanted to turn into something else to get rid of the embarrassment and hurtfulness that now consumed my body. I was not able to move from my position. “I think I have lost my appetite honey,” said Rose with disgust on her face. “And do I smell pee” she and Hornet shared a laugh. The anger was rising in my body as I looked at them laughing “Come on kitten eat your food like a good cat you are. I know you would be starving” Hornet said between his laughs. “Or you want to sit in daddy’s lap while I feed you I won’t mind that”. The anger in me was burning my whole body now. “f**k you” I didn’t know where that came from but I was okay with that I can die and burn in hell by saying those words but that was fine as it would take me away from this humiliation. The next thing I heard over my anger was the chair that was slammed against the wall as Lucifer jumped for me but I took off. “Lucifer, Lucifer'' I was able to hear Grayson calling for him. Lucifer got hold of me before I was able to get upstairs he pulled me and threw me over his shoulders ``I think you need to spend more time in the basement until you know how to act in front of people” “No! No! I can’t go back down there” I tried clawing at his back but it was of no use. Grayson came in front of him and tried stopping him “Lucifer what the hell are you doing?” “All you had to do was to say that you wouldn’t run” Lucifer growled at me with anger radiating from his body. It was that moment that I snapped “If the sick fat bastard ever tries to rape me again then I will run! I will run every time I will get a chance to escape this prison! I will run to escape the humiliation that I faced! I-“suddenly I was back on my feet but the hand on my neck was holding me in place. “What the f**k did you just said” he was looking at me with full-on rage “Hornet what the f**k did you just do to her” Grayson shouted at Hornet as he knew that it would be him. “I didn’t do anything to that b***h it was her that stabbed me remember?” Hornet said in his justification but the realization that passed through Lucifer’s eyes was evident “She must have stabbed you for a reason” Grayson growled at him. Lucifer looked into my eyes and let go of my neck. “Get the hell out and take Rose with you” Lucifer barked at Hornet who was still blabbering out his lame excuses to Grayson. Rose was shocked to hear him say that and moved quickly to come next to Lucifer and got hold of his arm “But baby I thought we were going to go upstairs and have a good time together. You are really going to some, something mess that up” she was swinging her hands in the air obviously absurd that he would get more interested in her and will not let her go. Lucifer’s poster didn’t change a bit by her show “I said to get her the f**k out of here Hornet” he snarled. He got hold of my arm but didn’t make any move. He just looked in my eyes and never took his eyes off me. There were different kinds of emotions running in his eyes and I was not able to put a figure on any one of them. “Lucifer” it was Grayson’s voice “Let her go now,” he said softly so he could calm him down but Lucifer don't let go of my arm as he made me look straight into his blue-gray eyes. ”She is mine Grayson to do what I please. Get out of here” his voice was soft but still firm. “Please Lucifer” Grayson tried to reach and pull me away from his arm as if he knew that he would break me with the amount of anger that he had right now. “Grayson!” he barked as his hands touched me. He knew that it was not good for me but there was nothing he could do for me. I saw Grayson pull himself away from me with sadness in his eyes and a pleading look that was screaming he was sorry when he looked one last time towards me and left the main door. I closed my eyes as a new set of tears started falling from my eyes. I flinched as a hand touched my tears stained face but I was not surprised to fell Lucifer’s hand softly brush my tears away from my face. I opened my eyes to look at his eyes and the same remorse that I saw in the basement in his eyes was back and screaming from his eyes. He was trying to hold everything back but he was not able to hide it anymore as it was just me and him in this house and no one else to look that through his hard posture there is still a soft-hearted person inside. “You are mine Neha,” he said looking in my eyes as he placed his forehead against mine. The tears that were stopped now started to fall again as something passed between us with all that fuss going around. We stood like that for like eternity when finally Lucifer spoke up “Go get yourself clean and I will get something for you to eat”. With that he left me with some tingling feelings and butterflies flapping in my stomach and I went upstairs.