Hood Tales, Volume 1 by C. N. Phillips

Author:C. N. Phillips [Phillips, C. N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“I know you’re awake.”

There it was: the voice that she’d been dreading since the day she was stolen away from her home. Lay Lay had no clue where she was, or why she was there. She was dirty, hungry, and thirsty, but no one seemed to care about that. The only thing that mattered to them was the thing that she could not tell them no matter how much she wanted to. Her wrists were shackled, and the chains were attached to the concrete wall of the basement she was in. She knew that it would only be a matter of time before they did her the way they did Dumphy.

“Are you ready to tell me where the money is, or are you still playing dumb?”

Lay Lay was sitting cross-legged with her back against the wall and with her arms in her lap. Her head was down, and her eyes were closed. She just wanted it all to be over. The basement that she was in was completely empty, besides the occasional rat that would come and keep her company. She honestly felt that the rats were coming and going just to see if she was dead yet and if they had some food. She opened her eyes and looked down at her hands, which were black and filthy like the rest of her body; and then she looked up at him.

“I told you already, Dorian, I don’t know where the money is. Dumphy never told me.”

Speaking just that one sentence seemed to take so much out of her. She hadn’t eaten or had any water since the day she was taken. Her body trembled violently, and she clenched her eyes shut again when she saw him walk toward her in the dimly lit basement. He grabbed her by the chin and tightly squeezed the swelling that was already there. Lay Lay winced, but she did not cry out. She didn’t have the energy, and she had started to welcome to pain.

“Dumphy was in your house every day, and the way he liked to run his mouth, there is no way that he didn’t tell you.”

“I told you all of the places that I think that he would put it. I just don’t know any more. Dumphy . . .” Lay Lay hung her head and inhaled deeply. She paused for a second, and before speaking in a whisper, thought about everything Dumphy put her through. “Dumphy wasn’t a good man to me. He could have twenty dollars while I had five, but still he’d take my five dollars. He took and took from me. My mistake was letting him. Yeah, I should have left him a long time ago. I was so scared of the thought of being alone that I didn’t realize that I was already alone. I don’t know where the money is. He was a selfish man. But, please”—that time the tears and sobs came as Lay Lay felt every word that came off of her tongue—“please don’t let them come in here and hurt me anymore.

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