Midnight Escape (Fortress Security Book 1) by Rebecca Deel

Author:Rebecca Deel [Deel, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Human Trafficking
Publisher: Rebecca Deel
Published: 2015-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Dana sat up on her cot, listened to the sounds growing louder outside her door. A girl crying, begging to go home. The echo of flesh against flesh. A slap? A sharp command from a male. She scowled at the door. Ape man. She could be a hundred years old and would still recognize his hated voice. But who was the girl? Her voice sounded like it belonged to a young girl. Maybe a teenager.

Something about the voice seemed familiar, but Dana couldn’t place it. Maybe the combination of drugs and weird acoustics in this cement prison. She eased off the cot, felt her way around the walls of her pitch-black cell, and pressed her ear to the crack between the door and the frame. “Come on, sweetheart,” she whispered. “Say something else.”

As if the teen heard her near silent plea, the girl said, “Please, just send my mom a message. She’ll give you anything you ask for to get me back.”

Dana gasped. Julie Lynch. She knew it was her young friend. How did Ape man get Julie? She raised her fist and pounded on the door. “Hey, Ape man. Open the door. I need to go to the bathroom.”

Ape man’s meaty fist slammed against the door, making the door rattle. “Keep your mouth shut or I’ll tape it closed.”

“I really need to go. Right now.”

Another cry from Julie. “Dana?” She started screaming. “Help me, Dana. Please.” Then her voice was muffled as if a hand clamped over her mouth.

Dana worked the doorknob desperately despite knowing it was locked. “Come on. Open the door. I already know who the girl is with you in the hall. Let me see Julie for a minute.”

She listened, prayed Ape man would listen to reason. What difference did it make if she and Julie spent a couple minutes together? It’s not like they would be able to escape since Dana was so weak from the small amount of food and water she consumed. The drugs they kept pumping into her system didn’t help. She didn’t stand a chance of escaping.

One minute was all she needed to encourage the petrified teen, maybe help her stay calm. If Julie panicked, Ape man and his friends might hurt her. She couldn’t live with herself if she didn’t at least try to help.

A moment later, a key sounded in the lock. Dana moved back, unsure if Ape man would grant her request or backhand her for causing trouble again. Her thug captor shoved open the door and threw the teenager to the floor at Dana’s feet. Dana caught a glimpse of the girl’s jeans and t-shirt before the door closed with a hard clang. A click locked them into the darkness.

Dana knelt beside Julie and gathered the weeping girl into her arms. “Julie, are you okay? Did they hurt you?” She waited for her sobs to subside, anxious to find out whether Julie’s treatment by Ape man and Skyscraper was similar to her own experience.

“They didn’t really hurt me.

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