Mia’s POV
The night was chillier than I expected it to be, but that was not going to be enough to discourage my plans, so I continued to entertain my kidnapper, Lorenzo.
He had shown me that he was a very observant man, so if I acted even a little out of the ordinary, he might catch on to the fact that I was trying to escape and that would ruin the chances of me ever getting out of this place. He was going to punish me if he found out I was trying to escape him.
I acted out my new normalcy for the rest of the day, being his passive-aggressive toy until the sun finally retired for the moon to take over the sky, and the darkness of the night enveloped the mansion.
I was about to go upstairs when suddenly my kidnapper call me back and told me that he had a surprise to show me, of course, my heart began to race instantly, wondering what kind of surprise he had gotten.
When I came down to the foot of the stairs, he began to search for something in his pocket and after a few minutes, his large palm revealed a small black box.
My feelings went from fear to utter panic, was he going to propose to me? Seriously after everything that he had put me through? Even though I was always secretly relieved that he had gotten me away from that marriage, I would have preferred to see Romero behind bars rather than that.
On second thoughts, I liked that he was dead. The bastard had tried to rape me, and would have succeeded if Lorenzo and men hadn’t arrived when they had done.
However, the panic immediately developed back into fear when I looked at the box and after a few seconds of squinting my eyes, trying to guess what was inside. He flipped it open himself and I hesitantly took a closer look and my palm flew over my mouth in case I mistakenly threw up.
I couldn’t tell what part of the body it was but it looked like it had just been freshly disconnected from the owner and I backed away, holding the railing of the stairs for support so that I wouldn’t buckle down to the floor and as I was struggling like this. He was laughing so hard that his entire body vibrated with the motions.
I knew that people could be heartless but I never imagined that it would be this bad and unbelievable.
“What was that for?”
I said, not able to hold back my outburst and he just responded with a shrug.
“I just wanted you to know what happens to people that get on my bad side and decide to play smart with me…”
My heart began to thump. Was it possible that he knew about my plan? No please, I hoped not.
Sick, twisted jokes like this were normal for him to get a reaction out of me and to see me miserable. It was as if I had any friend here that I had shared my plans with, and she had gone ahead to snitch to him… so, unless he was some kind of mind reader, or just being observant, Theresa no way he’d have figured out what I was plotting tonight.
A hefty-looking man suddenly showed up, coming through the door and then he went over to Lorenzo whispering something seriously in his ears. The smile on my kidnapper’s face was immediate when he glanced at me, and then when he looked at me once again, he appeared as stoic as a statue.
“Go to your room,” he said to me and I didn’t need to be told twice before I was already rushing there and the moment I got there, I slammed the door and then I thought about locking it, but then I remembered that I didn’t even have the key to the room even though I was the one using it. It was a very harsh reminder that I was nothing more than a prisoner in this place, meaning that anybody with the key could walk in at any time and I wouldn’t be able to stop them.
Then, I remembered by the next morning I wouldn’t be here anymore.
I just couldn’t stay here anymore, my life was much better when I was living with my parents and my sister even though I was as significant as a piece of furniture back at home, at least I didn’t have to worry about getting killed every single day and living with a psychopath who would constantly remind me about just how he despised me without ever giving my a reason why.
There was a tree that was close to my window, but now that I was looking at it after opening the window, I found myself second guessing.
My fingers gripped the window frames, the tree branches seemed to be further than they were before and even thinner too, a lot of thoughts began to travel through my mind.
What if I give up the ghost in an attempt to make the jump?
Or maybe I would be able to make the jump, but then the branches would break under my weight, the negative thoughts kept rushing into my mind like a flood, but after I placed them on a scale and then the thought of staying with this man for even another minute, I was ready to risk a few broken bones.
After all, even if he didn’t feel like killing me today, with the way his mood was always swinging from side to side, then he might just decide to end my life tomorrow.
So it was either that I reached out for my freedom today or sat down, folded my hands and waited for whatever he had in store for me.
I looked down, one misstep and a couple of broken bone would be the best-case scenario from the heights that I was.
But at this point, this was my only choice and so I climbed out the window bracing myself and leaped into the air.