Chapter 10
Isabella’s POV
When I got back to my cell that day, some of the other inmates where brought in later and they had heard about what happened from the other maids and guards, one of the girls who had occupied a space nearest to mine at confidently told me that the man I was assigned to was Don Lucifer, The king of the south. I knew the mysterious man was powerful and he must have possessed a certain kind of wealth to be able make Octavia cancel my earlier appointment but what I did not know was that he possesses the power of the city.
Something in me expected him to come look for me or even take me out of this hell hole called hell’s pit but I was disappointed when I heard nothing from Octavia, each time she had come to take the girls out of the cell she had successfully ignored me but sometimes she threw some snide remarks at me making the other girls look at me in a questionable manner even though they already knew what had transpired. Although I am happy that I haven’t been called upon because it only means that I have to do things that I don’t want to do but it was only a matter of time before they sort me out again.
“Take them out..” I hear the distant sound of the voice I’d assume to be that of Octavia’s, the woman could questionably loud sometimes even though she possess a small frame.
“Open the gates” I hear the voice again but this time with juggling keys with louder and heavier footsteps. She was probably coming with a guard.
I rested my head on the cold cemented floor, about to drown myself in another sea of thought when the juggling of the keys and loud footstep stopped right in front of my cell and there Octavia stood with one of the giant guard who scared the living daylight out of me everytime he came to the cells to drop our meals.
It was not just that looked scary, he acted scary and even one time he punched one of the male inmate in the nose for not acknowledging the plate of food he had brought for them. One other time, Octavia had granted him access to one of the girls in the cell and he had raped her right in front of us. When he was done he had a very disgusting smile on his face and then the said girl had said that it was some sort of punishment for her because she had beaten a client’s penis off for trying to touch her.
With time I got to realize that the man was a mute but it did not stop him from being a sadist because he was always the one to issue punishment to erring inmates who needed to be corrected. I am happy Romanio had let me go that and even forgiven my sins without making it a big deal, I wonder what would have been my fate now if this guard had gotten involved.
I feel someone tap my shoulder from the side and then I notice Octavia’s lips moving before I actually heard what was saying “Girl are you dumb?” I hear Octavia ask in a annoying high pitch voice.
She was referring to me and I heard not heard a tad bit of anything she had said, what am I going to say to her now?
I nodded my heard in the horizontal notion signaling to her that I wasn’t dumb but she was still staring at me with that evil gaze “oh my goodness, you are dumb?” She said again looking at the huge guard who had a sinister smile on his face.
“I… I can talk” I said stuttering as I bend my head so that I do not meet her gaze which was nearly immposiible.
Octavia and the guard burst into a fit of laughter after my response shocking me and then when I looked by my side I saw the girl that had signaled ne of Octavia’s presence looking as shock as I am. At this point I was beginning to get scared because what if h the guard is only here to give me my punishment and what if the punishment is going to be like that girl’s…….
“No!” I whispered in my head, Romanio had let me go on that day and he did not look like he was angry so why woukd I be punished now after how many days.
“She must think she is something” Octavia said still laughing while the joined her “just look at her feeling like a little caged princess” she said again.
My thoughts were already running wild but now it was questioning what I might have done again to make Octavia come all the way to the dungeon to just drop snide comments without seeking for someone first like she normally does.
“I wonder what she just did to Don Lucifer to make him ask for your freedom” she said again but this time around she was a little bit spiteful in her tone. “Or wait, he wants you as his person whore because your body is all I can say here”.
The huge guard continued to chuckle without uttering a word that I began to think if he was truly mute like the other inmates had said or if he just doesn’t talk as much because for someone who is mute this guard just had a way of pissing me off without even saying a word. Such a rare talent he possesses.
“Because of you tiny little thing..” she continued while I became highly aware of my body stature “Don Lucifer held me by the neck threatening to send me to my dead relatives” she snickered as she said the last line.
Something in my belly tingled as I heard what Don Lucifer had done to rescue me but then again why was I still here “you are not never going to leave” Octavia threatened while her whole demeanor changed “nobody leaves hells pit she said as she stared at me dead in the eye and then she walked away.
She had come to get girls for their clients, she had infact come to inform me of what was happening outside the cell and also let me know that I might never be able to leave even thought the king of the city wants my freedom.