“Alexendra, you are such a bad girl” Mr Parker says circling around the chair he has violently thrown me on and tightly tied me to.

“I don’t think I want to hear your opinion about me” I say angrily.

“That isn’t my opinion about you” he says shortly and leaves. A guy who I don’t not know comes in and cuts my clothes leaving me in my underwear. Oh no, oh no, not the bullet ants. The guy that I locked into this room comes back with scorpions. Oh shit why did I try to escape why?

“Richard Parker! Come back here and untie me now!” I say getting into a fit. Unfortunately Ashton’s father doesn’t come back. The guy places one scorpion on my shoulder and smiles. It’s tail comes into contact with my shoulder and I scream out in pain. I see him coming near me with another little monster and to my dismay he throws it on to my body.

“This is what happens to bad little bitches” he says pulling my hair to the point where I feel like there is blood on my head.

“I’m sorry” I say feeling the tears streaming down my cheeks and onto the concrete floor.

“You are going to be when I am done with you” he says laughing into my ear. He then throws another scorpion which almost immediately stings my bare flesh. Six scorpions later the pain becomes too much and causes me to pass out. I am awakened by a wet bag on my head making me struggle against my bonds which are tearing the skin on my wrist. This goes on for hours until he gets tired and leaves.

“I hope you had a wonderful time with Stephen yesterday” Richard says holding my head to meet his gaze.

“Leave me alone. Or better yet just kill me and get this over and done with” I say. I suddenly get a slap across my face.

“You do not talk back” he says his eys blazing. He suddenly leaves and closes the door. Again I am left alone the whole day with no food or lights, today though the temperature is excruciatingly hot. I start feeling the need to get water, I shout for water but no one comes to my aid. I suddenly feel my consciousness fading away from me.

***

I wake up in Ashton’s room and find him staring at me with a troubled face.

“You’re awake, are you ok do you need anything?” he asks. I shake my head in response and turn around. The last thing I want is to see him right now pretending like he cares.

“Are you sure you’re fine?” he asks again. And I nod my head in response not uttering a single word.

“Isabelle needs help in the kitchen” Richard says entering the room.

“She is not going anywhere” Ashton says motioning for me to stay as I am about to go and get ready so I can go help Mrs Parker.

“Fine just for today” Richard says getting out. Ashton then tells me to get up and we both go into the bathroom and he dresses the rope burns on my wrists. Why is he being nice all of a sudden? The man wants to kill me, what is the point of being nice to a person you want to kill?

“Alex say something” he says after some silence. Thing is I don’t want to talk to him I want nothing to do with him The only reason I am putting up with this is because I still have a little hope that I might go back home, back to my life and family. In order for that to happen I guess I’ll just have to play by their rules.

“Thank you” I say looking down making sure not to make eye contact. It is the only relevant thing I could think of at this point in time. He gives me a look that I have never seen before  it looks like he was regretting something his face looked…remorseful. He might just be playing mind games with me. I am brought back to reality by the door closing signalling that Ashton has left the room. I take a shower and wear my sweatpants and shirt and crawl back into bed. I am not ready to face the world at this point.

Ashton comes back with a tray of food and places it on the bedside table next to me. He then tells me to eat to which I comply.

“Alex, baby please say something” he says startling me with the ‘please’ Ashton Parker rarely says please.

“Thanks for the food” I say putting the tray on the bedside table. Why did he have to choose to kill me from the rest of the company and why go through all of these lengths just to kill me I mean he could have just shot me in some ally in the middle of the night and just left me there until someone finds my body in the morning. It would have been so much better than this.