Chapter 76 The Tall Man
Ashley’s POV
I felt a sharp pain in my head when I woke up.
“Ugh,” I groaned as I tried to touch my head but my hands didn’t move.
I opened my eyes.
I was tied up.
I looked around. What is this place?
Layla, can you hear me?. I said to my wolf but she didn't respond.
Layla! Still nothing.
I was tied to a bed so I couldn’t move at all.
“Somebody please help me!” I screamed.
“Please!”
I kept dragging the ropes around my arms but it didn’t do anything.
I kept screaming and shouting for help until I couldn’t shout anymore.
“Please, anybody,” I sobbed quietly.
I looked around the room. That was when I realized the room was all white even the bed and the ropes that I was tied with were white.
What the heck? I said as fear gripped me.
“Somebody—”
“Please shut up,” I turned my head very quickly to see a tall man walking towards me.
“Please you have to listen to me, whoever you think I am, that’s not true, you have the wrong person,” I tried to tell him.
“If you don’t shut up right now, you are going to regret it,” he glared at me.
“I’m telling you the truth!”
A slap came across my face very fast, the sharp pain almost made my head explode along with the headache.
“I told you to keep your mouth shut!” he said angrily and then his expression changed immediately.
“A girl like you should be obedient and listen to what the man has to say,” he said as he reached over and stroked my cheek.
I moved my head away immediately and his face darkened.
“You will learn to be obedient, one way or another,” he said and turned to the table.
There was food on it and he picked the plate up and walked over to me.
“Open up,” he smiled with his crooked teeth.
“I’m not hungry,” I said.
He held my jaw and squeezed it until my mouth opened and he pushed the food inside.
“If you dare spit it out, I will clean this floor up with your face,” he snapped as if he was reading my mind.
I nodded slowly.
He smiled and fed me.
“I will come back later, I suggest you enjoy your morning, it seems peaceful today,” he looked around and smiled.
What was he smiling about? The room was all white, how could he see anything.
He looked at me again and left.
Immediately he left, I looked at the table again, he had left the fork behind and I was going to use it to escape.
I struggled until the rope finally loosened and I was free. I grabbed the fork and rushed to cut the ropes on my legs and my other hand. I kept looking at the door until I was free.
I got up and rushed to the door.
I opened it and looked around, there were no guards.
That was strange but I was happy about it.
I looked down and realized they had changed my clothes and now I was in a patient’s gown.
I took off running, I wasn’t sure where I was going but I kept running.
I finally found a door that said exit on the top.
I smiled with tears in my eyes, I was going to be alright.
I ran to the door and opened it with a smile on my face.
“Where are you heading to?” my smile fell as I saw the tall man waiting for me at the door.
“No,” I said as I shook my head, I moved away from the man.
“Did you really think you could run away from me?” he said as he walked towards me.
“Stay away from me!” I screamed as I turned and tried to run away but I fell down.
My head suddenly felt so dizzy and my body was too heavy to stand up.
“What did you do to me?” I asked as I saw two of him now.
“I loved the show you were putting on in the room, and the fork, I didn’t think you would be so skilled with it but then again the ropes weren’t that tight,” he said as he shrugged and bent down to look at me.
He knew I was going to escape, that was why he kept everything there.
I choked back a sob. This man was playing with me.
“I just want to go home please,” I cried.
He raised my chin. “And you will my dear.”
“Really?” I asked.
He smiled at me. “Yes but just not today,” he stood up. “What you did was really bad, trying to run away. I need to teach you a lesson.”
My eyes kept closing. “What..will you do to me?” I was trying not to fall asleep.
“So many things,” he smiled at me again.
Somebody help me. I shouted or at least I thought I did as my eyes finally closed shut.
I screamed as I opened my eyes.I looked down and saw silver wrapped around my legs and my hands.
The tall man was in front of me.
“Ah, you are finally awake,” he said as he moved around the room.
I was back in the white room but I wasn’t in the bed this time.
I was tied to a chair.
I looked around and froze when I saw what the tall man was doing.
He turned to me with a weird looking knife in his hand.
I looked back at the table and there were different tools there.
Different sharps tools for cutting through things. For cutting through me.
I flinched in my chair.
“It’s okay but we can’t have you screaming so much,” he said as he used a cloth to cover my mouth.
Tears rolled down my eyes as I tried to beg him to stop whatever he was doing.
“Would you try to escape again?” he asked as he raised the knife.
I shook my head.
“Good then because once I’m done with you, you never will,” he said as he walked straight to me.
“Mlease melp me!” I shouted through the cloth, but nobody would hear my screams or my pain.