Save Me

Chapter 10

I slowly blinked my eyes open a small stream of light coming in through the small window near the ceiling. My stomach grumbled from hunger causing me to sit up running my hands down my face as I looked over at the door. Light was streaming in from under it and I could see the shadow of somebody walking past every now and then. I stood up and walked over to the door my hand resting on the doorknob. I had nothing to lose if Cody found out that I had tried to escape, what was he going to do, kill me? I slowly turned the doorknob my eyes widening in surprise as the door popped open and I stared out into an empty hallway. I took a small step out of the room my feet touching the cold, hard floor as sunlight instantly blinded me. I silently closed the door behind me as soon as my whole body was no longer in the dark room. I quickly and as quietly as I could ran down the steps the front door almost right in front of me. I pressed myself against the wall next to the door as I heard the floor upstairs creak signalling somebody was walking around or had moved upstairs. I quickly pushed the front door open letting my body slide out of the frame. I looked up at the sky a small smile forming on my face as the warm, bright sun shone down on me. I took a step away from the house letting the sun onto my skin a small laugh escaping my lips as I turned around to look at the house squinting in the bright sun. I took a few more steps away from the house until I started to run towards the road my body feeling weak from not eating. I heard a dog growling and the sound got louder as I neared the road, so I assumed it was a stray dog in one of the many alleys near the house I was being held captive in. I felt a shooting pain in my leg and I fell to the ground my face smacking into the grass as I let out a scream my leg feeling as if it had been ripped apart. I forced myself to roll onto my back as I screamed in agony the whimpering of a dog sounding in my ears. The large head of a tan bullmastiff appeared over my head his eyes scrunched together as he whimpered. I let out another scream as I looked down at my leg that was now covered in blood and felt like it was on fire. I heard the front door slam shut as the sound of another dog barking rang throughout the yard and I looked over at the house as Cody walked towards me following another bullmastiff, but this second one was all black and it even looked mean.

"So you tried to run." He said as he crouched down in the grass next to me his eyes looking down my leg as both dogs ran over to the front gate where a car had just pulled up. The tears continued to flow down my face as the blood proceeded to run onto the damp grass beneath me. "How bad does your leg hurt, Riley? Answer honestly."

"Really bad." I cried my whole body shaking again as I felt the pain in my leg intensify. He started laughing and picked my leg up blood instantly dripping into his hands.

"Damn, when they told me that dog could kill I didn't think it was going to be true." He said a sick smile plastered on his face as he ran his finger over the place where the dog had dug its teeth into my leg. I cried even harder realizing that Cody wasn't here to help me, he was here to kill me and watch me suffer. He wanted me to die and he told me he was going to kill me and what better time than this. "You definitely need to get some medical help soon or you might bleed out." A smirk took over his face as he brought his hand up to my face my own blood staining my face. "But we don't want you to live, do we? You want to die and I would love to have you dead."

"Please just help me." I sobbed my leg hurting terribly bad as I felt myself get weak from all of the blood I have lost. I heard a car door slam shut as the two dogs went crazy with their barking Cody's eyes shooting up the gate as they instantly widened. He lifted me up bridal style quickly carrying me into the house the door slamming behind him as he walked into the kitchen. He set me on the counter with my legs limply dangling over the edge as the tears still ran down my face. He then moved my legs out of the way and opened the kitchen drawer beneath me, pulling out a large first-aid kit. I let out a small whine of pain as he put his body between my legs memories flooding back into my head as his hands touched my leg and part of my thigh causing me to cry harder.