Amanda's POV

{{A week later}}

"Hi! can anyone h-e-a-r me", I emphasized the adjective in my sentence loudly but to my melancholy, it was just the non-living things which existed in the room, to whom I was basically audible too. I felt disconsolate and shattered, and I knew that I was now into something which had no way out.

Somehow I had a small spark of positivity that maybe the message was delivered to the right people at the right time, and maybe my best friend's could unleash the Sherlock within them and give some serious reaction to the situation because basically half the time they thought that I was playing loose pranks which were something I didn't want to be mistaken with.

"Eat something", a man came towards me with a pack of chips.

"Go away", I shouted.

"Do as instructed, cunt", he opened the packet of chips and stuffed them in my mouth to which I was grateful because I haven't eaten to my appetite ever since I got here, but to my discontent, they were tasteless and spicy. "If I order something, you have to agree to it otherwise I know how to fulfill my wishes."

I spat all the chips after eating a bit which he stuffed in my mouth, on his torso, as he was in a standing position. I regretted so much that I couldn't spit it on his face. "And I know exactly how to disobey your orders."

He came extremely close to me, our nose almost touching. "We'll see to it, baby whore", he smirked and left without uttering another word.

I was awakened from my quick nap when I heard footsteps coming towards me. The voice increased every consequent second which gave me chills through my spine, because the fact that I was staying locked with unknown men, made me question my virginity.

It was quite dark so the vision was blurry enough for me to recognize their faces, but, I somehow managed to arise the karate kid within me to offend the person who was coming in my direction, because the least I wanted was to be molested and lose virginity to someone who was completely unknown to me, not that I'll sleep with any known person. I believed in losing virginity to someone special, who I could count on, for the rest of my life. My thoughts were a bit of old fashioned, in this century.

The person was just one hand distance away from me. I tried to push him with my face, which kind of rested harsh on his stomach. I kept hitting him twice, thrice,  and continuously.

"Do not utter a word", my lips were pursed with the strong man's hand. His touch and voice felt familiar to me. I quickly paved my eyeballs towards him, but to my bewilderment, it was Mr. Reynolds.

Tears of joy flow through my eyes. I couldn't wipe them off because my hands were possessed by a rope. "Free me?" I cleared my throat, wiping off the tears from my cheek with the help of my shoulders.

"Don't command Miss Waters", he instinctively started to unfold the rope by loosening the clove hitch. He then loosened each loop through the other loop making the operation a major success.

Tears started to roll through my eyes because of the excess pressure that the rope possessed over my skin, which led to bruises all over my arms. My hands and legs developed a blackish and bluish color over my skin, due to lack of oxygen in the area of the bruises. Mr. Reynolds had saved me a lot many times but this time, he felt like family. Like someone, I would have never imagined being saved by.

Without considering anything else, I rested my face on his chest and extended my hands to his neck so that I could have a tighter grip on myself. Though, as much I wanted a friendlier hug, but the situation was already full of complexion. It felt like I had no energy in my body, which kind of gave me a feeling that my legs were paralyzed.

I knew that I was overthinking about it, but my legs were unable to behold my entire body. It felt like they were frozen.

"You okay?" Mr. Reynolds quickly supported me through his arms.

"I'm not fine, to be honest", I tried not to be sarcastic but what kind of a person asks such a question. It's like asking someone to go on a world tour, who is on a ventilator.

He quickly lifted me in his arms and rushed towards the door "Stay firm, don't keep moving"

I nodded to his instructions and tried turning myself into a mannequin which was very difficult for me because I was habitual to making movements in my body every second minute.

"Tie both of them and wait for Boss", an ugly, tall, dark, and bold muscular man instructed his fellow hooligans, and alarmed towards us instinctively, after pushing at the main door harshly.

Mr. Reynolds placed me softly on the ground over the grass straws and turned around towards the men extending his arms signaling them to stay backward. "How much money do you want to get over us?" he removed his cheque-book, after questioning.

"Loyalty matters and we have already given our word to our boss, that we will keep the girl with us until he signals to free her", he turned and looked towards me and continued " We were not going to harm the girl anyways", he marched towards Mr. Reynolds and caught him from his collars, uplifting him a bit "We can't do any harm to you as instructed by our Boss, because he certainly wants o harm you himself, so we have to wait till then"

"I wish loyalty mattered to your Boss as much as it matters to you", he contradicted his statement pushing him backward and punching him on his chest, followed by his stomach ."Dare touch me again", he warned them by pushing him so hard that he directly got laid on the ground.

The tall dark man came towards me after giving Mr. Reynolds an enraging look. He later tied me to the pole by giving me a push from his legs, which was one hand distance away from me. "Don't you dare", Mr. Reynolds warned those men again.

"Is she your love interest? Because I am basically going to be rewarded by an oscar tonight, as soon as Boss makes an entry here", he removed a small pocket knife from his key chain "which is probably going to be her", he ripped off my right arm's sleeves which exposed the skin. I tried to cover my thighs whilst stretching the skirt from my teeth, as I was wearing a cotton knee-length dress, which I was probably wearing for a week. Ew.

"Not an issue baby girl", he looked at me, pleasurably. If only he could rape me with his eyes.

"Go away", I frowned and spat, this time on his face.

"I will look upon that whore in nearby future", he told his companion and started to walk away. "Lock the doors from outside and guard them until Boss appears", he signaled his fellow mates.

"Look what you have bought us into", Mr. Reynolds waited for everyone to leave and then took charge over me.

"W-WHAT? I didn't invite you here. You see I don't even have my phone. They broke it. It took a 3-month internship for me to purchase that phone", I tried keeping my point.

"Seriously Waters. All you care about is your phone. How very impressive?" he fake smiled.

"You didn't have to be here. I did all this for my family. For...", I paused for a while "For you, Mr. Reynolds"

Mr. Reynolds looked at me for a while with a straight face and then replied "I got a call from a guy, who addressed him as your best friend", I nodded waiting for him to continue "We decided upon a place to meet and talk. We were joined by a girl too, at the gathering. She had evidence", he looked towards the ground "evidence about someone who I claimed as my brother, and who was the sole person I trusted upon" I could feel his voice turning low.

"Hey! Mr. Reynolds, it's okay!", I tried consoling.

"And no one gives you permission, to risk your life here, for me Miss. Waters", anger could be felt from his voice.

"I - I", my mouth just felt short for words, so I paused for like minutes and continued "My sister was included into all of this" I narrated him the whole story of perverted James, explaining to him briefly about every incident that happened before being kidnapped.

"But you didn't even consider talking to me about it", he yet sounded angry.

"I tried", I cut his sentence "I tried, but then got into this "

"Should've texted me", he opposed my sentence.

"Thought a meeting would be appropriate", I kept my point "So how does James know about you knowing everything", I questioned interrupting the silence.

"Your phone call gave him a clue, God Damn it. He was suspicious since then. I somehow tried to fool him by calling it a business meeting of me getting away, from town, but then I was caught up by the guards"

"Did you inform the police about it?" I interrupted.

"I was going to, but then, I didn't want to alarm James about it. I just hope that your friends call the cops"

"Can I ask you one last question?"

"You wouldn't stop anyway. Carry on", he nodded.

"How did you know that I was here and why didn't my friends come to save me instead?" I raised my eyebrows.

"I suppose you wanted one answer", he raised his right eyebrow and continued "Because I am Aaron Reynold's. I have one whole technical team", he started to flaunt his rich identity "I warned your friends to stay away from this situation. They looked quite innocent too" he looked towards me "In fact, they were so innocent that they even tried to contact your mom and tell her about it"

"Did they?" I questioned expecting a positive answer which favored my side.

"I stopped them and assured them that I'll get you home safe. There's one whole contract whose conditions you have to satisfy, and I couldn't let you run away from it yet "

"This isn't some joke Mr. Reynolds"

"Exactly", he frowned "this could've been easier if you would have shared things with me earlier", he contradicted my statement.

"I thought I could manage to save my family and", I inhaled deeply "and you, of course, you have helped me all the time. I'm always in trouble. My clumsiness has always created problems for me", a tear rolled through my eyes. I turned around because I didn't want to act weak in front of him.

"So now if you have all your answers, Miss. Waters can we try to find a way out?" he tried to make the situation lighter and tried moving but the rope was tightly gripped to his body.

"Maybe I can try harder", I tried moving a bit, since I could do a bit of movement. I took charge of my neck chain from my mouth and caught it tightly between my lips and rubbed it over the cord to and fro for a couple of minutes.

"You even think, this is going to help. Your chain isn't sharp enough", he sounded so disinterested in my plan but I kept trying.

After like 10 minutes there was a cut on the rope "keep doing", he cheered out of excitement. I so wanted to do a quick hair flip but I tried to be focused on my goals. After applying continuous pressure, the rope got chopped. I freed my legs by unfolding the rope and crawled towards Mr, Reynolds as I was yet unable to stand accurately.

"Impressive", he helped me untangling himself from the rope force. We were both free now. Mr. Reynolds started to look around so that we could possibly find some way to escape.

"Oh look there's a small window there, behind the exhaust fan", he pointed towards the fan which was covered with dust and was almost invisible.

I took Mr. Reynolds's hand and caught him tight so that he couldn't move any further. "Please listen to me for once", I instinctively replied so that he couldn't think any negative about me.

"MM HMM ", he nodded which clearly meant that I should speak without wasting any more time.

"Do me a favor. Please-Please let go of me, don't take me along. I can't really walk or run nicely. It can create a problem for both of us, so please GO Aaron. Please", I exaggerated the word 'please'.

Mr. Reynolds looked into my eyes for a moment and then started to march towards the window. He quickly unscrewed everything and pushed the fan out with the help of a stick. He hopped up to see if there was anyone closer to that space and whether it was safe for him to sneak out. He then turned around and came running towards me and uplifted me through my thighs resting my stomach on his right shoulder.

"stop right now", I tried not to shout.

"Make me", he pushed me up with all his strength "Try not to make any noise. Just jump", I did what I was instructed about. My legs did hurt me after the jump but that pain was nothing more than the thought of being sexually harassed by unknown men.

Mr. Reynolds jumped at the moment after me. "I'll try walking", I took shelter from the wall and tried standing up. It did hurt but I had to show courage. I couldn't just be troublesome to Mr. Reynolds for being a complete gentleman.

"With this speed Miss. Waters, either one of us is going to die. I am the one they'll hunt for sure", he came closer and picked me up with both of his hands. "Careful", he signaled me as my balance shook for a moment.

"I can't thank you enough", I looked at him but didn't get the courage to thank him loud because I knew he'd give a sarcastic reply no matter how much he'd be meaning the same thing.

He looked at me in my eyes, with a confused look "What are you smiling at, and did you say something?"

"AH! Nothing", I looked away. Every girl must have heard the proverb 'eye contacts are way sexier than a naked man could ever be', well this was something which turned out to be true.

Mr. Reynolds started to walk as fast as he could. He was unable to run as I was on top of him but he took long strides, which could compensate his running speed. After walking for a while, I realized that we were somewhere within the bushes. We could see no houses, no vehicles, and no humans.

It felt like we were into some rough forest as we were surrounded by trees. "I hope there are no wild animals here" I broke the silence.

"No one could be as scarier as you", he replied instinctively with a smirk.

"That is so rude", I pouted.

"Maybe you should start exercising and put off some weight", he changed the topic.

"This is one level plus rude,  people say I'm underweight. How do you even have the guts to call a skinny girl fat?" I offended.

"Ouch, that definitely hurt you", he laughed and turned away.

"Shush", Mr. Reynolds settled me on the ground and stopped my lips from moving with his hands. "Do you hear the noise ?" we could hear some sort of a growling noise.

"Stay calm", Mr. Reynolds whispered and intertwined my hands with his to comfort me as I was shivering already!

Author's note

I've sorted the whole concept in my mind. I'll try and write as much as I can. There's more to love and adventure.

love you all

-xoxo

feel free to comment and drop a vote if you like.