Chapter 32 - Falling into Darkness
**(Warning this chapter contains content that may be very sensitive to some readers)**
Cat struggled with the cuffs on her wrists and ankles with no use. She didn't know where Caleb went, but she knew he'd be coming back. She kept telling herself she needed to fight until Trey got there. He would save her from this horror.
She refused to let herself cry because that wouldn't get her anywhere other than letting Caleb think he was breaking her. Cat tried to listen to see what he was doing. She could hear him in another room, and it sounded like he was searching for something.
After a few minutes, he came back into the room carrying a man's black leather belt with a large metal buckle on one end. He didn't have to say anything. She already knew what he was going to do. Cat had been beaten enough to know that look.
"I see that my plans for you have to be changed because you have turned into a little ungrateful bitch. You were supposed to come to my home and do whatever I wanted to please me, but you didn't. Instead, you bit my tongue when I was kissing you. You told me to stop when I fingered your pussy. You kneed me in the groin and kicked me until I fell on the floor. So now I'm going to beat you until you give in and give me what I want without complaining. If I want to kiss you, you'll kiss me back. If I want to stick my dick in your mouth, you'll suck it. If I want to fuck you, you'll moan in pleasure and beg for more. When you're ready to do that, let me know, and I'll stop hitting you. Do you want to agree before we start? This is your last chance."
Caleb ran the belt through his hand and waited for her answer. Cat glared at him. She would never give in to what he wanted. He could beat her until she was dead if it meant not letting him break her.
"I have thought about what you said, and this is my answer. I would rather choke on my vomit than kiss you. If you stick that deflated peanut you call a dick in my mouth, I'll bite it off. If you rape me, I won't moan in pleasure. I'll spit in your fucking face, you disgusting piece of shit. No matter how long or hard you beat me, I'll never agree to do what you want. You're nothing but a fat pig, and I can't wait for Trey to kill you."
While she was speaking, she saw Caleb's face getting redder and redder. Cat knew he would make her pay, but if it kept him off her, she would withstand the pain. He walked over to her, shaking with rage.
"You're going to regret talking to me like that. You'll submit to me, and when you do, I'll do anything I want to you."
Caleb lifted the belt and began hitting her. Cat continued to glare at him as he hit her body over and over. He was using the leather part on her, which she knew would leave welts, but she had learned to disassociate herself from the pain a long time ago.
She refused to let him think he was hurting her or breaking her down. She stared him in the eye as she took the beating. She saw him getting mad that she wasn't crying or begging him to stop.
He stopped for a minute because he was out of breath, and sweat was running down his plump naked body, making him look like a wet ball of dough. Cat could see her body was covered in long red welts. She couldn't see a piece of her white flesh anywhere. However, she still refused to give in to him.
"Okay, I see you want to play hardball. Let's see how you like this." Caleb changed the position of the belt in his hand so that when he swung, the large metal buckle would hit her. Cat knew if he hit her with that, it could break bones.
When Caleb started swinging and hitting her with the buckle, Cat tried not to scream out in pain. She could feel the metal breaking her already tender skin, and she saw blood flying with each swing of the belt. She was sure a couple of her smaller bones had broken as she felt tears running down her face from the piercing pain.
She looked up at Caleb and saw that he had some of her blood on him. She still refused to tell him to stop. She would hold on until Trey got there. Caleb stopped using the belt on her once her body was completely red and bloody. Cat didn't know what he had planned next, but she wasn't submitting.
"Are you ready to agree to my demands?" Caleb was out of breath from hitting her so many times.
"Die, you fucking bastard. I would rather eat shit than let you touch me." Cat spat at him.
Caleb screamed out in anger and walked over to the side of the bed. He balled up his fist and started punching her in the face repeatedly. Cat could feel her nose break, and her eyes were swelling shut. She knew she was beginning to lose consciousness because everything in her body went numb.
She could feel the pressure of him punching her in the face and head, but not the pain. A darkness came over her as she slipped further and further away. Her last thoughts were of Trey and wanting to apologize for not being strong enough to hold on. One last tear escaped her eye before Cat knew no more.
Caleb looked down at Cat and couldn't tell if she was dead or unconscious. He tried to feel for a pulse, but her body was so bloody and swollen that he couldn't feel anything. He was furious. Why couldn't she just do what he said? He decided to kill her if she wasn't already dead. She was too much trouble for him to worry himself about. He would find another young woman that would be more than happy to do as he asked.
He left out of the room that had Cat's blood splattered all over the floors, walls, and ceilings. Caleb felt she had no one to blame but herself for this. She should have known better than to speak to him as she did. While he was in the bathroom cleaning the blood off himself, he got a text from Leo. He wanted to know what was going on.
He hadn't told Leo he was taking Cat and keeping her. He thought about the best way to respond to him, and then he laughed as he sent the text. Caleb told him he brought her home to have some fun with before bringing her to him. He knew Leo would be pissed, but he didn't care. No one knew of this house, so he could stay as long as he wanted.
Caleb walked back into the bedroom to check on Cat. He needed to dispose of her as quickly as possible if she was dead. He would leave her where she was until she woke up and then kill her if she were alive. He made his way over to her and tried again to feel for a pulse or see if she was breathing. He still couldn't tell. As he was about to check her other arm, he heard something behind him and turned around.
Three SWAT team members ran down the hall toward him with guns. They were yelling at him to get down. Caleb tried to run for the window, but he wasn't fast enough and was tackled to the ground. Two held him down and cuffed him before yanking him up while another talked into the radio, telling someone to come in.
Caleb heard running footsteps and saw Trey coming down the hall. He tried to break free from the man holding him but couldn't. Trey looked at him with so much anger that he knew Cat was right; he would kill him. However, Trey's eyes went past him to the bed, and he ran over to Cat.
Trey felt his heart stop when he saw her lying on the bed, bloody and bruised. It didn't even look like her. There was not one piece of her exposed skin that wasn't injured. He undid the cuffs on her and covered her up with a blanket. He tried to check if she had a pulse but couldn't feel anything. He fell to his knees beside the bed and cried as he held her hand.
"No, no, no, Cat, you can't leave me, please. I'm so sorry I was too late. Please don't leave me. I need you." Everyone there felt the anguish in Trey's pleas, but from the looks of it, they were too late.
