Chapter 95 - Kidnapped (5) (1/2)

| Innaya |

In my childhood, I had witnessed enough physical violence that had left permanent damage to my conscience. If I were to witness violence I would be either paralyzed with fear or unconscious because of a panic attack. Thus I have always made a careful attempt to stay away from it. However, life is unpredictable. What I wanted to avoid most was happening before my eyes.

I gasped in horror as I watched the cold and terrifying man grabbing the man's neck who had tied me. He dragged that masked man along as he completed a long circle and threw him on the ground. The masked goon was struggling to breathe. Beneath his mask, I could imagine how his face might have lost all the colors. His big eyes had widened beyond imagination and the pure terror was visible in them.

I was feeling his terror. At that moment, in that man, I saw my past and future self. That unfeeling man in white did not display a bit of sympathy for the man working either with him or under him. He then kicked the man on the ground in his stomach, the force of that kick caused the man on the ground yell in the pain and slide backward on the ground.

I pulled my legs involuntarily back as the entire violent scenario brought back the memories that always landed me in panic attacks. No, no. Not now. I could not afford a panic attack at that moment. I could not let those people know I was scared. I could not let them find out my weaknesses at any cost.

'Calm down, Innaya. Calm down. You can do this.' I closed my eyes only to recall Eshan's sweet face and the times where he had brought me out of my panicked conditions. I relived his comforting words and gestures through my memory, and as surreal as it was, I felt myself regaining a hold on my slipping control. I wanted to be courageous and determined to tackle the situation.

”What did I tell you? Is this how I had told you to do this?” The cold voice of the man in white had me shuddering in fear.

He did not shout or yell, but the low dangerous tone he had used, it was enough for instilling fear in people's bones.

”S... sorry, Boss. You had said that she is a black belt in Karate. I was afraid that she would run.”

Boss?

I was surprised as I heard the man on the floor speak in his trembling voice. Okay, so it was him. Their Boss. The mastermind behind my kidnapping and he told them about my fighting skills? That meant, he had himself stalked us to know about them and had not asked anyone else to do it as I had thought.

I still could not comprehend why he would target me. My memory could not betray me with faces. I was sure that I had never seen him, and Eshan... he was too sweet and kind to harm anyone. Who would seek an act of revenge on him and that too in this extremity?

Who was he? I wished to get out of this place. Out of reach of this man? He was making me scared. He had that killing aura around him, that made me want to shrink. I closed my eyes. It was naive of me to think that if I closed my eyes, I would not be able to see him and so would he. Life did not work that way.

”Shut up and get lost,” he roared.

My eyes flew open reflexively. I saw how his furious shout sent everyone out of his sight. They all almost ran away. If he could behave so fiercely with his subordinate, then who was I? I was the woman he kidnapped. How could I expect him to not show inhumanity towards me?

My forehead acquired sweat beads of perspiration as the thought of being left alone with that man terrified me. As I watched him approaching me, I was panic-stricken. He intimidated me, and the feeling certainly was not pleasant.