Painted Woman
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Kory's eyes slowly fluttered open and fear began to shake her cold body. Instead of being in her soft bed, Kory was lying on a cement floor and in only her silk pajamas. A chilling laughter caused her to scream and break out into tears.
"Please let me go," she sobbed as the laughter began to die down.
"Now why would I do a thing like that?" a man's voice asked.
"You don't need me for anything so please, just let me go," Kory begged again.
"If I let you go, where would you run? You no longer have a family and you'd probably end up getting lost and then raped while searching the cities. After you've gotten raped, they'll probably just kill you," he said, his footsteps circling her.
"What are you going to do to me?" Kory asked as the man chuckled.
"Anything I want," he said and Kory's fear began to worsen.
"Will you ever let me go?" she asked.
"Did I not make this clear? I will never let you go and you will stay here to please and assist me!" the man yelled and Kory flinched at his anger.
"What if I don't want to please you?" Kory asked, finding it hard to say.
"It doesn't matter if you want to or not, I can easily force you to," the man said.
"You're disgusting," Kory spat and the man lunged forward, grabbing her by the neck and pushing Kory up against the wall.
"You will learn to respect me or you will be beaten," he threatened before dropping Kory to her feet. Kory placed her fingers on her neck and tried to breath.
"Why me?" she chocked out.
"What?" the man asked, returning to the shadows.
"Why did you take me? There were at least five other girls with me, why me?" Kory asked and the man chuckled.
"Because my little whore," he started.
"I am not your whore!" Kory yelled.
"You were by far the prettiest," he finished and Kory couldn't help but blush.
"The others were not as developed as you and didn't have nearly as many curves. You were also the thinnest, though I'm going to make you thinner," he said.
"Who are you?" Kory asked, her voice horse.
"Most call me Slade," he answered.
"When you say most you mean the police, don't you?" Kory asked.
"But you will call me Master," Slade said, completely ignoring her other question.
"If you don't you will be punished," he then added and Kory shut her mouth.
"My place, or hide away, is very big and easy to get lost in. There are no maps to help you, and if I'm forced to come and find you, you will be punished," Slade said calmly.
"Is there anything I can do that won't get me punished?" Kory asked.
"There are some things that you'll eventually learn later on. For now, enjoy your stay. I'll be back tomorrow to give you some bread if you're lucky," Slade said before leaving. Once he was gone, all the lights went on and Kory squinted. She was in a small, box-like room that had a small mattress in the corner. Besides that, the room was blank and had a dead feeling to it. Exhaustion from the day began to sweep over Kory as she crawled over to the small bed. Closing her eyes, Kory was haunted with nightmares.
"Mother!" Kory screamed, watching as the person that brought her into the world collapsed to the ground, blood trailing down her pale face. The man that had killed her turned and would have locked eyes with Kory, but his eyes were covered by a mask that had an 'X' on it.
The other girls behind her began to run away, screaming, but she stayed; locked in his gaze. Kory finally began to run away, hoping to catch up with her friends, and fearing that he would come after her. She turned around to look back and found that he was not following her, but also no longer in sight. With her head turned, Kory was unable to see where she ran and bumped into something, causing her to fall to the dirt.
Kory looked up and her gaze fell upon the masked man. She let out a scream and tried to get to her feet but he only pushed her down again. Kory's vision began to blur as tears fell from her emerald eyes. Her lip quivered as he reached down and grabbed her by the arm, dragging Kory to her feet.
"Please don't hurt me," Kory begged, refusing to look into his emotionless masked face. He continued to watch Kory as she struggled against his grip.
"Why are you here?!" Kory screamed at him, but she already knew the answer. It had started out at a bad day and it only got worse as it went on. Earlier Kory had gotten into a fight with her boyfriend, she got in trouble for passing notes in class, her father was gone again when she came back, and now her parents were dead. The only reason she was even in this mess right now, with her other friends that were there for the slumber party, was because these people had decided to hit her house and not the next one.
"Answer me damn it!" Kory yelled, but still got no reply from the masked man.
"Just let me go," Kory said and the man brought his face down to hers.
"You're lucky cutie," he whispered into Kory's ear, causing her to shiver and not from the harsh winter air.
"How am I lucky?" Kory asked.
"Because you have a nice body, if you didn't, he'd probably kill you," the man said and Kory glared at him.
"I'd rather you not check me out and who is him?" she asked, but before the masked man even made an attempt to answer, everything went black.
Kory woke up screaming at the top of her lungs. She didn't know why she was screaming, but it felt good to. She guessed it was the hope that someone would hear her and come save her that made Kory feel good while screaming, but that hope was shattered when the lights turned off and the door opened.
"You can stop screaming, there's no one around for miles," Slade's voice rang and Kory stopped her screaming.
"Please just let me go," she begged.
"You aren't that smart, are you?" Slade asked and Kory glared into the dark.
"Of course I'm not going to let you, you belong to me now," he then added and Kory crossed her arms.
"I belong to no one!" she yelled before everything went silent.
"You belong to me, I will tell you that now and only know. The next time you think differently, you'll wake up very confused probably in my bed," Slade threatened, his warm breath on her neck. Kory stiffened as he clasped something around her ankle.
"Probably chaining me to the wall," Kory thought. She brought her hand down to her ankle in search of a chain, but instead found Slade's gloved hand. Kory quickly pulled away from his hand and tried to move her ankle away from his hand as well. As she moved her ankle, the sound of the chain scrapping across the hard floor echoed off the wall and Kory knew she was now a prisoner.
"Do you understand me?" Slade asked, his voice now further away from Kory.
"Yes," Kory said in a weak voice.
"Yes what?" Slade asked.
"Yes, Master," Kory said and she knew that if she could see Slade's face there would be a pleased smirk on it.
"Good, I'll be back later," Slade said before the lights turned back on and Kory was once again alone.
"Why did I have to be lucky?" she asked herself before falling back into her horrific dreams.
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First chapter! Yeah! Anyway, if anybody wanted to know why I chose 'Painted Woman' as the title, it's because I searched the word 'concubine' in a thesaurus and that was one of the options. I picked 'Painted Woman' out of the others because it's a really pretty name (not the meaning), and is unique.
I've decided to post this story because I do enjoy writing it and I already have like 9 of the chapters typed up. (though I have to go back and edit them because I'm changing around the story a bit) I'll hopefully be updating chapter 2 before I leave for the cruise so I have something to keep my readers occupied with.
So I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! Please review!
Kattie