Chapter 95 - Kidnapped (5)

| Innaya |

In my childhood, I had witnessed enough physical violence that had left permanent damage to my conscience. If I were to witness violence I would be either paralyzed with fear or unconscious because of a panic attack. Thus I have always made a careful attempt to stay away from it. However, life is unpredictable. What I wanted to avoid most was happening before my eyes.

I gasped in horror as I watched the cold and terrifying man grabbing the man's neck who had tied me. He dragged that masked man along as he completed a long circle and threw him on the ground. The masked goon was struggling to breathe. Beneath his mask, I could imagine how his face might have lost all the colors. His big eyes had widened beyond imagination and the pure terror was visible in them.

I was feeling his terror. At that moment, in that man, I saw my past and future self. That unfeeling man in white did not display a bit of sympathy for the man working either with him or under him. He then kicked the man on the ground in his stomach, the force of that kick caused the man on the ground yell in the pain and slide backward on the ground.

I pulled my legs involuntarily back as the entire violent scenario brought back the memories that always landed me in panic attacks. No, no. Not now. I could not afford a panic attack at that moment. I could not let those people know I was scared. I could not let them find out my weaknesses at any cost.

'Calm down, Innaya. Calm down. You can do this.' I closed my eyes only to recall Eshan's sweet face and the times where he had brought me out of my panicked conditions. I relived his comforting words and gestures through my memory, and as surreal as it was, I felt myself regaining a hold on my slipping control. I wanted to be courageous and determined to tackle the situation.

"What did I tell you? Is this how I had told you to do this?" The cold voice of the man in white had me shuddering in fear.

He did not shout or yell, but the low dangerous tone he had used, it was enough for instilling fear in people's bones.

"S... sorry, Boss. You had said that she is a black belt in Karate. I was afraid that she would run."

Boss?

I was surprised as I heard the man on the floor speak in his trembling voice. Okay, so it was him. Their Boss. The mastermind behind my kidnapping and he told them about my fighting skills? That meant, he had himself stalked us to know about them and had not asked anyone else to do it as I had thought.

I still could not comprehend why he would target me. My memory could not betray me with faces. I was sure that I had never seen him, and Eshan... he was too sweet and kind to harm anyone. Who would seek an act of revenge on him and that too in this extremity?

Who was he? I wished to get out of this place. Out of reach of this man? He was making me scared. He had that killing aura around him, that made me want to shrink. I closed my eyes. It was naive of me to think that if I closed my eyes, I would not be able to see him and so would he. Life did not work that way. 

"Shut up and get lost," he roared.

My eyes flew open reflexively. I saw how his furious shout sent everyone out of his sight. They all almost ran away. If he could behave so fiercely with his subordinate, then who was I? I was the woman he kidnapped. How could I expect him to not show inhumanity towards me?

My forehead acquired sweat beads of perspiration as the thought of being left alone with that man terrified me. As I watched him approaching me, I was panic-stricken. He intimidated me, and the feeling certainly was not pleasant.

"Stay away from me," I wanted to warn him in the sternest tone that I could manage, but all could do was to bit the cloth tied to my mouth as my words came muffled. It did not seem to affect him in any way. His steps did not stop coming towards me. I felt my breathing turning unsteady along with my heartbeat. My eyes watered and they kept being unfocussed.

He covered the distance in two strides and untied the cloth covering my mouth. My body shuddered in fright when he leaned close to me.

"Eshan will find me and when he does, he will not leave you." I glared at him, trying to put on a mask of confidence and conceal my inner fright.

"Ah, don't talk about him," he said as he loosened the ropes that were used to tie my hands and legs.

The instant shift in his tone from the formidable one when he had burst out on his own man to this light and somewhat a friendly one as he talked to me - was beyond my understanding. The 360 degrees turn in his actions and behavior startled me. However, I did not lower my guards. The man before me was unpredictable and scary.

Why was he removing the ropes? What was going in his mind?

"Listen, please don't make any attempts to get out of this place, okay? I wouldn't like to do anything that would hurt you," he told me with a small smile before he walked out of the room. 

I did not get a chance to relax when he moved away from me. I did not get a chance to try to run away from this place. His words had completely rendered me motionless. I had seen what he could do to hurt me. He had given me a live demo of what he was capable of when he beat his own man.

The boss, as what they called him, returned within five minutes with a plate filled with a Dosa, Sambhar, coconut chutney, chocolate milkshake, and a pineapple pastry.

'What the hell is going on? Is that food drugged? Does he want to do something-' I did not want to even think in that direction. One thing was clear, the man was not as simple as he was trying to portray himself. He had ulterior motives and it was a matter of time before he showed his true colors.

"Here, eat this." He placed the plate on the small dining table that was at one corner of the room with two chairs and gestured me to come there. "It is not drugged. See, I will eat first for you."

For a moment, I was in a daze. Was I really kidnapped or was I at some friend's place? Why would a kidnapper treat me - so nicely?

"I don't want it." I denied right at the moment he spoke and averted my furious gaze from him. I did not want to look at him anymore. My fears were lurking around in my mind, and I was not sure, how long I would be able to hold myself together.

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