Monsters

*Sandra*


I can hear the window slide open in the room. I immediately felt stupid that I didn’t make sure they were locked. The room is dark, other than slight lighting coming from the natural outside lights. I hear someone step inside and intuitively know it is Tommasso. I don’t move, holding my breath, listening closely. I hear something sliding across the floor but with all the commotion outside the room, I know they won’t hear it. This man is smart, and he is making the least amount of noise possible. After a few moments, I hear him whispering. “Ladies, where are you? C’mon queen sunshine, don’t let me find another little whore in here? Takara? Are you here? I wouldn’t mind feeling it again.” I hear a whimper and know that he will find her. I step out of the shower. I don’t know where Ms. Jones is but I can’t imagine allowing her or any of the others to get hurt. Not to protect me. “Are you looking for me?” I say softly, so no one else will hear me. “Ciao Bella” His words send a chill through my body. He licks his lips and checks me out slowly. I stand a safe distance away. “What do you want with me?” He smiles and takes a few steps towards me.

I step back not realizing there is a lamp on the desk behind me. I hit it and the whole thing crashed to the ground. It distracts me and I turn to see what it is and before I can stop him, he grabs my arms and pulls me close to him. I hear Joseph at the door, he is screaming at Tommasso. I can hear the fear in his voice. I want to yell and tell him I am okay, but my mouth is covered by a sweaty bloody hand. He runs his other hand over my breast and down my body. The words he says to Joseph sickens me and I beg him not to touch me. He slides his hand in my pants and touches me. I close my eyes and take myself to another realm. I won’t allow him to get what he wants out of this act. He laughs out loud as he fondles me taunting Joseph through the door. I bit his hand, and he slapped me, hard. The stinging wakes me up, bringing me back to reality. “Please, don’t touch me!” I hear Joseph apologizing through the door, he doesn’t need to. He didn’t do it. “I am going to take it baby, you are going to be Tommasso’s now.” He throws me on the bed and with the back of his hand slaps me again. He tears at my clothes, moaning as he touches me, making me convulse inside. “You are going to enjoy this girlie, don’t worry.” He whispers in my ear. He spreads my legs and lays down between them. I can feel his monster extending poking into the cage he has me trapped in. I look up to the ceiling, refusing to scream and cry to break Joseph like he intends for me to do. I see something out of the corner of my eye, and suddenly He yelps falling backwards. Ms. Jones stands there with tears in her eyes and a letter opener in her hand. She had stabbed him in the leg. He grabbed her and threw her to the floor in the bathroom.

When the door starts to open, he hides behind it. I see Joseph and Jay with some guard come through, and I cover my face leaning into the bed. I am bawling now, knowing that I was saved. I can’t control my reaction; my brain is not processing what’s happening around me. The shock was too strong to let me go. I look up and see Joseph with Tommasso behind him with a gun in his back. “There you are!” The voice that came out of Joseph, the laughter, was scary. He sounded like a monster, dark and evil. Tommasso had brought out the demons, the ones who created Smoke. Tomasso laughed too, “You were just in time boss, your lady and I were about to Fare l'amore.” Jospeh growled. His limit had been surpassed. He was angrier than I had ever seen him. Even with Ryan. “You will die.” He roared. I looked up at him and his eyes looked black. The Joseph who smiled and kissed my forehead, nowhere in sight. He is a different person when he is like this. He takes on a completely different persona. “You better kill me now mother fucker.” Jay and Seven have now pulled guns pointing them directly at Tommasso. Zeus and Henry walk in behind them to try and remove us from the room. Takara and Tanya go out with them. Tanya tells them that Ms. Jones is injured in the bathroom. Tommasso pays no attention to the others walking in and out, all his attention focused on Joseph. “Put the gun down, mother fucker!” Jay is yelling now, having glanced over at me. These men are going to tear him limb from limb. Suddenly I feel my power growing. Everything he had made me feel disappearing. I get up off the bed and walk towards him. “You better put the gun down Tommasso, maybe they will let you live.” Tommasso can’t help but look over at me disturbed at the fact I wasn’t lying in a bundle of tears. I wipe the blood from my lips and walk behind him, “You are mine now.” I whisper, causing him to faulter. I signal for the others to get Ms. Jones from the bathroom. Zeus walks her out, and she smiles at me. I jump back as Joseph turns around and grabs his gun. Seeing Ms. Jones injured being his final straw. He starts hitting him with the butt of the gun over and over. Jay grabs his back pulling him off him. “We got him brother, check on Sunshine.” He yells at him to try to get him to let go. He looks up at me with his black eyes and rage and I reach for him. “Smoke?” I say quietly as the men pick Tommasso up and carry him away. He was breathing but I was sure he wouldn’t be for long. Joseph walks to me, covered in the man’s blood, and wraps me in his arms. He begins to sob.