The dungeon of love

"When you declared me a missing person on national radio,you also attracted bounty hunters my way,love.I was on my way back to you when I got abducted.I was blindfolded and tied up.What I wasn't aware of is,that would be the last day I saw natural light.My abductors took me across the country,as their short coded messages implied then darkness..."

Sunny tore the page from her notebook and tossed it across the dimly lit room that was her bedroom...or cell.Either of the two because it's where she slept and also where she was kept captive.

She never went out unless she was using the bathroom.It wasn't the first letter she had attempted to write with no way of actually sending it to the intended recipient.But pror to that,she hadn't been the one to tear the letter from the notebook.

Movement on her tummy brought her back to the unnerving reality of her life.The featherlight movement was almost ticklish and a small smile spread on her ashen lips.

She was seven months pregnant, almost a year into captivity.It still amazed her how she had kept track of all that time.Something else that amazed her was that no matter the circumstances her baby was made,she couldn't hate it.On the contrary, it's the only thing that had kept her sane the past seven months.Sunny loved the baby that grew inside her, precisely why she was rubbing up and down the bump at the moment.

Sunny momentarily stopped rubbing her bump when someone's figure loomed at her room's entrance.Her senses jumped to alert before she figured it was time for her meal.

Normally,one of the boys who stood guard for her brought her food.But in the past couple of weeks,the guy in charge,Lion,also responsible for her pregnancy had taken up the chore.

She smiled to her self at the thought of 'the one responsible for her pregnancy ',the all mighty king Lion.She doubted the guy even noticed her condition.The only time he showed any emotion was when he shredded Sunny's letters in her face after reading them;then,his grip on the piece of paper would tighten and his jaw tick.

Sunny stood up from her makeshift bed and went to bend to pick the tossed letter.She didn't want Lion to see any more of her pathetic letters to her love.

"You shouldn't be bending like that in your condition."

Sunny's knees almost gave in at the deep husky voice.It would be music to her ears if it's owner wasn't the very object of her torment since she stepped foot there.Wherever there was.

"I'll take care of that."Lion replaced the letter in her palm with a bowl of what smelled like rabbit soup.Sunny ignored it's sour smell and focused her attention on the big guy in her cell room.

"I already told you I'm no one special.Please,let me go...I'm begging you."Lion gave her a quick once over his eyes lingering on her belly.She had said the sentence to him whenever he showed up around her and he always left her talking to herself.

But today...he didn't.And as naive as Sunny was she dared hope...

"You're right.You are no one special but you have something that belongs to me,sweetheart.So you are going nowhere!"

He spoke with finality in thick Russian,or Italian accent.Sunny's heart literally dropped to her stomach as her tore her letter.He didn't bother to read it because he had read it one too many times to know it's contents.And she thought wrong,Lion knew she was pregnant.

Sunny's small whimpers developed to full blown sobs when Lion left.She smashed the bowl with her food against the bare wall that confined her there against her will.The shattering sound was a welcome.She took off the regularly cleaned sheets from her makeshift bed and tossed them away.

She was furious and hurting at the same time.

She wanted to punish everything and everyone that had a hand in the unfortunate events that plagued her life.She would die now.Lion would never allow her leave.Her heart constricted almost closing all the air holes

If Josef had married her as soon as he promised instead of taking off to pursue his music career,which was paying pretty well from what she heard,she wouldn't have been in the wrong place at the wrong time that fateful afternoon ten months ago.If she had been patient enough to wait for Josef, instead of running from home at the slightest provocation from her mother,she would be home 'not so sweet home' but still home.If...a single syllable word that changed her fate for the worst.

"I have to leave this place."She ranted to herself while drying her tears .She started pacing,a hand firmly planted on her under belly."My baby won't be a sacrificial lamb for some sick in the head dumb asses fighting over a stupid criminal gang.

"Surely,Josef loves me too much to mind my return with a baby."She still ranted to herself.She heard the agenda of his abductors a fortnight ago when she was being escorted from the bathroom.

She also learned that she wasn't the only female around but unlike her,the rest weren't being used as baby machines.Rather,they were some bigshot daughters or cousins to big names whose families would pay a very generous amounts for ransom.A light clicked on in her head as she thought of an idea...

"Help!She yelled."Help me!"She held both hands to her bump and bent forward,her face screwed like she was in real pain.She had learned acting in highschool and although it didn't pay then,she left with some skills.

Her guard rushed in.She was leaving the hell hole they called the basement even if it was the last thing she did.

"I think there's something wrong with my baby,help me!"She screamed to the young guard who looked barely twenty.She had always been passionate about hearing people's stories and would have loved to chat with the guard if she wasn't busy trying to save herself.

"Don't you have an emergency doctor around here?Can't you see I'm in pain!"Sunny asked the guard relaxing her face a bit.She stared back at the stunned youngster who was ruining her escape plan before letting out an earth shaking scream.It was one thing having a plan but an entirely different matter making it work.