Chapter 41
I run for what feels like an age as I continue to make noise and tell the fake Senna random things. As I stop to get my breath back, I hear a twig snap a second before I am knocked to the ground. As I open my eyes there is Ms Carter sitting on me with a sadistic grin on her face.
“Looky, looky what I caught” Ms Carter’s voice sings as she continues to smile down at me.
“Get off me” I growl as she continues to sit on me like I am her damn chair.
“Where is the brat?” Ms Carter snarls as I feel her hands reach into my hair.
“I am not telling you, hopefully, she is still running toward safety” I snarl back as I plant my feet lift my hips, and twist my body at the same time. As Ms Carter wasn’t expecting the move she tips slightly to the side, and I take the opportunity to shove her with my hands and knock her off me while quickly getting to my feet.
“Why? Why are you doing this?” I growl as I look at the woman slowly climbing to her feet.
“Because over twenty years ago your mother sold you to us. We paid your mother delivered you and then the next day your father came and took you back. But he didn’t just take you back he stole you back and your mother while trying to help him get away lost her life. She didn’t want you and from what we understood your father didn’t really want you either. YOU WERE PROMISED TO ME. You were going to be my toy my doll and your father ruined everything. Then imagine my surprise when you came into our daycare looking for a spot for Senna. You grew into such a beautiful doll that I knew that if we had Senna then things would be right you would have paid the price for letting me go without for all this time.
But after a couple of weeks, you started asking questions and Senna never did what she was told. We were going to make you out to be an unfit mother but once again Senna managed to swallow a damn toy which then got her surgery and who knew that you were going to be with the Rhodes. You know they almost found you when you turned six years old. Janice was out with you at the park and that busybody Michelle mentioned that you looked just like the little girl that her friend lost. But thankfully her child broke an arm and she was distracted. That was when your mother started having second thoughts about going through with the sale. But she had already spent some of the money and we were willing to take the money back I wanted you.” Ms Carter says as if it wasn’t a big deal that she wanted a living doll, and I was sold to be that doll.
“Why Senna?” I ask
“One for payment. I wasn’t going to keep her she is nowhere near your beauty, and I had already found another family that was willing to take her off my hands and it was for a nice tidy sum as well. But her mouth would have lessened the value.” Ms Carter laughs
“You know that this is wrong right? You know what you are doing is against the law?” I ask I mean she seems so ok with what she is doing.
“No its only against the law if you get caught” Ms Carter laughs back at me. Not wanting to hear any more of her shit I take the rock that I have in my hand and throw it straight at Ms Carter. I hear the thud as it hits her, and I hear her scream, but I don’t wait to find out how much damage I did. I just want to be away from her and her psycho shit.
I race through the forest leaping over some fallen trees and falling over others. After I jump a small hill, my feet don’t find the ground that they thought was there instead what they hit is air before the impact of the wet slippery ground makes contact. I let out a small scream as I started sliding down the hill at a rapid pace.
As I try to grab anything and everything to help slow me down, I watch in horror as the moonlight finally streams through the trees to illuminate the edge of the cliff that is rapidly approaching. I close my eyes and pray with everything that is in me that there is deep water on the other side of this and that there is nothing that is going to outright kill me.
I feel the cold rush of air around me seconds before the cold water engulfs my body. The impact of hitting the cold water knocks the breath from my body and I open my mouth to breathe. As I push myself to swim to the surface, I break through the surface of the water and take a big deep breath. Taking a quick look around I find a bank not fifty meters away from me. As I swim to the bank, I keep looking around looking for Ms Carter, the last thing that I need is that creepy bitch popping up out of nowhere.
As I drag myself back onto the bank I look around for any movement, seeing none I take a deep breath and push myself into a standing position. Turning right I head towards where I left Senna. I am sure that she is going to be frightened.
“Where do you think you are going?” Comes the all too familiar voice of Ms Carter.
“I see you didn’t trip fall and break your neck” I mumble as I watch her walk towards me.
“No, sucks for you though” Ms Carter responds with a laugh.
“Or you depending if you think this is where you win” I snap back with a smile of my own.
Tony always told me that if you were ever in a fight then use anything and everything he made sure that he taught me everything possible and also got me into mixed martial arts as a way to make sure I was safe that also started my love of weapon training.
Ms Carter and Janice were not taking my daughter over my dead body.