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Lana frowns. “I know. It's okay. I—I enjoyed today though. Thank you.”
I bend down, lock the shackle back on and bring her down to the basement. Before I leave her I give Henry a couple head scratches.
“I enjoyed today also,” are my last words to her before I return upstairs.
I thought I was empty inside. I thought what our dad put us through turned me cold and incapable of love, just like Cole, but these feelings that have slowly been creeping up on me are building into something intense and foreign. I think…. I think I'm actually falling for her. Despite the pain and darkness of my past, I’m slowly but undeniably falling in love with Lana.
I always thought falling in love with someone meant losing yourself in them, but with her, I feel like I'm finally finding myself. Lana is a shooting star lighting up my dark lonely world.
I have to get her out of here.
“What the fuck is this?” Cole asks when he sees the tree.
“What? Tis the season,” I respond.
“You do this every year or are you trying to get on the whore’s good side? Was the damn cat not enough?”
“I do this every year,” I lie.
“Yea, well, I don't think Santa will be visiting this house this year,” he says sarcastically then heads into the bathroom to shower.
I see Lana for the last time of the night when I bring her dinner, stealing one more glance at her before heading back upstairs.
Two hours later I hear Cole’s familiar footsteps heading down the hall to the basement for his last visit of the night. I try not to picture what goes on but it constantly gnaws at me and always haunts my dreams, leaving me struggling to sleep most nights.
Chapter 14
Lana
The rays of the morning sunlight shine through the small window of my prison and I find myself longing to feel the warmth of those rays on my face again. A simple pleasure that’s easily taken for granted when you always have access to it and you aren't trapped in such a shithole. It now symbolizes a sense of freedom. Watching the sun’s warm embrace linger just out of reach has me mourning my old life, the old me. I'm trying to stay hopeful and trust that Callum will get me out of here, but some days are harder than others.
The basement door opens and Cole’s large form comes into view at the bottom of the stairs causing Henry to take off into a dark corner. I wish I could follow and hide with him.
I'm a bit caught off guard seeing Cole this early in the day. I guess he won’t be going to work.
Great.
“Up,” he orders.
I stand and he unlocks the chain from the wall and walks me upstairs to his bedroom.
I hate being in here. Everything smells like him. Like cigarettes and stale beer.
He pushes me onto the bed and climbs on top of me then removes my shirt. I lay under him completely bare. He begins to squeeze my breasts hard and bites my shoulder. His newest thing is biting. He has yet to break the skin but it's hard enough where it hurts like hell. I shut my eyes tightly to hold back reacting. He continues biting various parts of my body while stroking himself and grunting.
Suddenly there's a sharp slap to my face and my eyes shoot open.
“Fight back,” he groans, licking his lips.
I don't react. I don't want to give him the satisfaction. Another hit flies across my face and the sting of it sends my eyes filling with tears but I hold them back.
Don't react.
He yanks my hair pulling my face towards him, “You wanna play this game with me? You won't win, whore,” he sneers into my face, sending particles of his spit onto my skin.
Cole’s hands wrap around my neck and he presses hard. My hands instinctively fly up wrapping around his wrists but then I drop them just as quickly and close my eyes, letting myself submit to the lack of air and impending darkness.
Before I completely lose consciousness he lets go. I harshly inhale and begin coughing. A closed fist lands to my stomach and I jolt inward and suppress a cry. I want to puke. Maybe I should just give him what he wants. He’s only getting more furious. I'm going to end up with something broken and there's no way he would take me to the hospital for it.
