10 Chapter Ten

Few months ago.

I ended up in a place where women were cuffed in chains and most of them wore collars. They were dressed as strippers, as slaves. It was uncanny. Men grabbed me from all corners, pushing me onto the ground. My face was pressed against the floor. When my face touched the floor I felt an agonizing sting against my left cheek. I tried to release myself, kicking and screaming for help but everyone around me just glanced as if it was something they have seen to be normal.

"shut the hell up no one is going to help you" another man says in annoyance. The tears begin to stream down my face and I could taste the blood from my bottom lip. I tried to with hold the pain I feel, I tried to hold myself from screaming by biting down on my lips but nothing seems to be working. All I could think of was about the hungry men devouring every moment they tortured me. I continued to fight back till I had no fight left in me, till my body went limp. My heartbeat began to slow down as I drifted off somehow praying that this is all just a dream.

⁂ Now.

"Alexis?" I hear a voice call out for me. My body begins shaking uncontrollably on its own, Forcing my eyes to roll to the back of my head. "Alexis damn it!" The person screams. Holding me in place as they try to stop me from shaking. "Alex!" he shouts again with his voice much clearer, making it easier to recognise who it is. "I swear to God if you don't open your eyes I'll slap you." he says in between hiccups. The thought of knowing that he cares make me want to fight back for control, try to control what's happening with me.

In my head I tell myself to not give up to hold onto the hope James has in me. My eyes slowly opens up, blinking not once but twice to adjust to my surroundings. "James?" I question trying to find him. I don't know what happened all I remember is that I had a dream and by how my body reacted it had been a very bad one.

"Geez you pathetic, I was worried" he says frustratedly while grazing his right hand in his hair. He always has the habit of doing this when his annoyed or frustrated. "I don't know if I should be happy that you were worried or if I should be angry for you in the owing of calling me pathetic." I exclaimed sarcastically with an eye roll.

I place my arms on the back seat in away to help me lift myself so that I could sit up and while doing so my head accidentally knocks against James's head. "Damn is your head made of rocks!" He remarks then runs his forehead with his left hand while his right hand is placed on my thigh.

"Whats your problem?" I ask him in an irretating tone. I hate that we've gotten from close to hating each other. Well he hates me not I him. I wasn't sure how I felt anymore as my body failed to feel any emotions.

"Can you just shut the hell up!" He screams, grabbing ahold of the stearing wheel. Then bangs his head against it as if he was angry at the whole world. He looks at me with eyes like daggers that I swear could kill me

"Make me." I demand, crossing my arms Infront of my chest as I try to look intimidating. James scoffs follows by a low chuckle. He gets out of the car and opens the back seat door. Pushing me to make room for him to get in.

"I dare you." I say unaffected by how massive his body structure is, how intimidated I am by him. He scares me. James looks at me and moved closer, hovering over me. I tried to move away from him but my head knocks against the window of the car causing James to burst into fits of laughter.

"You think you can just run that pretty mouth of yours whenever you want to." he says grazing my bottom lip with his thumb "You think just because I'm helping you I seem to care" he explains which stuns me. This is so so low of him to say. I knew he felt like I was a burden to him but I never knew he felt this much hatred.

"Wanna bet?" I say challenging him. I'm not going to allow any of these low life women traffickers to walk over me again. Not in a million years and I'm sure as hell not going to show James how hurt I am because of him.

"Gosh is it hot in here or what?" I question. Taking off my Shirt which leave me in a sports bra only and of cause I've got James full attention by doing this. "Can you roll down the windows? I'm still hot." I say giggling to myself. I need to get him to the point where he is in a good mood again. I like him when his around Cara.

"If you going to complain that it's hot one more time, I'm going to give you a reason to sweat." James explains while rolling the window next to me down by leaning over. He placed one of his hands on my hip for support to hold him upright. Goosebumps begins to form on my bare skin and shivers ran down my spine.

"Prove it." I whisper in his ear then laugh at how surprised he was but soon he replaced his stunned expression with a smirk. "What's in it for me?" he asks grabbing ahold of the back of my head in a gruesome manner. I don't know how long we've been at it with each other because the sun is slowly setting outside and the parking lot seems to be getting emptier. "Just shut up! And I'll show you." I scream frustratedly.

James brings out the worst in me. He makes me want to break the rules and do bad things. As much as I know I'd love it thats just not in my nature.

"Yell at me again, I'll give you a reason to scream." he says leaving me breathless. I dont know how long I've held my breathe in because once he said that we just stared at each other for what seems like to be hours.

"Alexis. Breathe." he tells me while grazing my left cheek with his hand. Before I could react my vision becomes a blur and soon after everything goes black.