Once the room stops spinning, I notice Javier has what I can only describe as a torture kit laid out on the desk, I swallow down the scream begging to rip through my throat. I knew he was going to make me pay, I just need to be strong until Jimmy gets here.

“Where to begin?” Javier runs a sharp blade across my cheek, the cold steel against my skin causes me to jump. I jerk my arms, trying to find some way to get free, I won’t go out without a fight. Suddenly, I feel hot searing pain across my collarbone as Javier slices me. “Scream for me, Puta.” He slices me again in the opposite direction, but I refuse to scream. He wants my pain, my screams, to break me, but not this time. I know they’re coming for me.

I feel my blood trickling down my chest, soaking the front of the white shirt I stole from Jimmy. My skin burns from the cuts Javier continues to make across my arms and chest, but I still refuse to scream.

“SCREAM!” he yells, spit flying into my face as he begins to lose his temper. He smacks me across the mouth once again, but still not a sound. “Maybe I need to find another way to break you,” he whispers in my ear as he slides his hand up my leg, bile begins to rise in my throat. My eyes fill with tears, will Jimmy still want me if Javier touches me? Javier must see the fear in my eyes because he unties my legs from the chair and then re-ties them together.

“Oh yes, will your soldier boy still want you after I fill your cunt with my seed.” Javier unties my hands and pushes my face down onto the desk, sliding his hand across my ass, he reaches around and rips my underwear off. I begin to struggle, “Yes! That’s it you little puta, give me your pain, your sorrow. I own you, no one will want you now.”

He ties my hands together, pulling me down by my bindings. The panic begins to set it, my chest begins to constrict as I fight for air. My vision starts to blur with tears as I surrender to what is about to happen to me. No one will want me, will love me anymore. I’m stuck, all alone. A whore for Javier forever because of one bad mistake.

I feel Javier placing his wet lips across my shoulder. “That’s it, you are mine.”

No!

I belong to NO ONE!

I am loved!

My eyes fly open and notice the knives still lying in a row close to my head. Now that Javier believes I’ve surrendered to his will, he’s losing his grip on my hands. I let out a war cry, releasing all the pain and anger I’ve built up through all of this and knock him off me. Grabbing a knife, I lunge for him, stabbing him in the stomach. Blood begins to ooze from the wound quickly.

“You may have got lucky, but there’s no way you are getting out of here alive.”

Just as he finishes speaking, I hear gunfire, the cavalry has arrived. “You were saying,” I say with a smirk. He doesn’t wait before launching himself at me, knocking me to the floor and the knife from my hand.

“You think your brother and his little friends will get the best of my men? When one falls, there are three more to take his place.” He wraps his hand in my hair and begins dragging me back toward the desk, I will not let him rape me. He slams my head twice against the top of the desk, making the room spin once again. Blood begins to drip into my eyes, and I reach up to wipe them clean, realizing I can move my hands slightly in my binding. I begin working my wrist free of my binding.

“Time to finish what we started. I was going to be nice about it, ease you back into the ways things are. However, seems you need to be taught a lesson.” Javier brings his hand down hard on my ass, another scream rips its way out of my throat. Cutting my ankles free, he kicks my legs apart just as my hands are free. Without a thought I grab the closest thing to me and turn, plunging it into his neck. A large silver blade sticks out from the sides of his neck as he gasps for air. Blood sprays everywhere, but it’s not enough, never enough. He needs to suffer. I reach down and pull up my pants before turning to grab another blade off the desk, stabbing Javier in the chest. His body falls to the floor, I climb on top and continue to stab. Tears streaming down my face as I continue to pay for all the pain he has caused.

“Little Bit.” I stop my motions to see Jimmy standing in the doorway covered in sweat and grime. “Jimmy,” I whisper before dropping the knife and heading in his direction. Nothing else matters but getting to him.

“You found me.”

“Like I had any other choice?” he responds with a smirk. ”Let’s go home.” He reaches out his hand for me, waiting for me to take it. Just like that first day we met, I take it and know that no matter what, he will protect me. That for the first time in forever, everything is going to be okay as long as we’re together.

Just as we make it to the top of the stairs, he spins me around in his arms and gives me a searing kiss. “Just in case you forgot, I love you too, Little Bit.”

The shock must be present on my face. “Is this really the time for you to be telling me how much you love me?”

“Well, you told me when you were running away, it is only fitting that it’s one of the first things I say to you when I got you back.”

I wrap my arms around his neck and bring him in for a gentle kiss. “Remind me when I am not ready to pass out, to give you a hard time. This is not what I had imagined.”

He scoops me up and begins the treck toward the entrance. “Rest now. Just to clarify you are everything I have ever imagined, and more.”

With that, I rest my head against his shoulder and let the darkness overtake me.