The front door opens and Tony comes back inside, carrying a young woman in his arms bridal style. She’s still unconscious.
The first thing I notice is… how beautiful she is. Long dark hair, fair skin, pretty features. She looks a lot like Dimitri, just the female version. And while I hate to admit it, Dimitri is handsome. I may not be into men but it’s obvious to anyone who sees him. Makes me hate the fucking bastard more. If he were ugly, I’d have a leg up on him.
But I’m glad Katya is pretty. It will make this all the more fun.
Before my very eyes, Katya begins to blink as consciousness comes back to her. She looks around the room with a frown on her face. Her eyes are a beautiful blue color. Striking and deep.
When her eyes land on me, they widen and that’s when she begins to panic. The scream that erupts from her mouth is unlike anything I’ve ever heard before. She kicks and flings her body around so much that Tony drops her to the ground like a sack of potatoes.
She lands on her body with a huff before she starts screaming again and backs herself up until her spine hits the wall.
“God, she’s annoying,” Tony grumbles. “Stop screaming.”
“Tony,” I snap. “Leave this to me. Go wait outside.”
Tony does as I say and I head over to Katya, who refuses to stop screaming. Alice steps out of my way, shame written all overher face. She obviously did not agree with kidnapping Katya but it’s amazing what someone will do for money.
I kneel down before Katya. “You need to stop screaming.”
She covers her hands over her ears and continues to scream like she’s dying.
That’s when her eyes land on Alice and her screams immediately stop. “Alice?” she whispers, her voice strained. “What’s happening? Where am I?”
Alice backs away, unable to look at her. “I’m sorry, Katya. I’m so sorry.”
Katya finally looks me in the eye and she’s a pretty sight to behold. “Who are you? What do you want? Where am I? Why am I not in my room?”
“I’m Alek Morozov. And you’re in my house.”
“What? How? What’s going on?”
“I had Alice here kidnap you. She fed you some banana bread, I believe. Made it easy to bring you here.”
She sucks in a breath. “What? What?”
“I’ll be real with you, Katya. I don’t like your brother. We’re not friends.”
“You mean you’re… enemies?”
“Yes. That’s why you’re here. You’re going to help me hurt him.”
“No!” she screams and tries backing away again but there’s nowhere for her to go with her back to the wall. “No, no, no!” She screams and panics so hard that her breath comes out in fast pants. “No,” she says in a softer voice, clutching at her chest. The panic is obvious on her face. “No.”
And right before my eyes, she falls over and passes out. The panic was too much for her it seems.
Katya is not at all what I had been expecting. For one thing, she’s much more pretty than I thought she would be. And two, she’s a lot more scared than I thought possible for a human tobe. I’ve never seen someone panic this way. It’s… disconcerting, to say the least.
“You may go, Alice. I’ll take it from here.” I pick Katya up – she’s incredibly light – and bring her down to my basement where I had a specialty cage made just for her. It’s large enough for her to stand up in. I even included a pillow and blanket because I’m not a complete monster.
Katya is going to stay here for a while. I don’t need her dying of cold because it is fucking cold inside this basement.
I place her in the cage and shut the door, locking it. When Katya wakes up, her entire life is going to be changed.
Katya
When I wake up again, for a moment, I hope that everything that just happened was a dream. It had to have been because the reality…
But then I fully wake up and realize I’m not back in my room at all. I’m in a… cage?
