Chapter 1 The Empty Cold Cell

• Madison's POV:
• I was lying on the cold ground, pale and weak in breathing.
• Actually, I managed to fall asleep after crying almost all night.
• "Hey... Do you think you're here on a vacation? Get your stinky self up" One of my captors kicked my tummy, and I groaned in pains.
• My eyes were already swollen, so I found it really difficult to open them.
• I tried to sit up, then I remembered that my hands were chained backwards.
• I kept on struggling until I was able to sit up, and open my swollen eyes a little.
• Is this how cruel life is? Have I really become a slave?
• Thoughts kept running through my mind, but I know very well that I won't be able to escape this time, no matter how hard I try.
• The mean looking muscular lady passed the plate of oil and cornmeal that won't even satisfy a baby of two months. It's not like I have a choice here, I'm a slave and I have no choice at all.
• "Eat that, and get ready for work" She glared hard at me, and I gulped hard in panic.
• "Work?" I turned to her with furrowed eyebrows, and she scoffed.
• "What do you think you came here for? Do you think this is a picnic? You're a slave, and you should know what a slave does" She snorted.
• I didn't want to say any other word because I don't want to get into trouble with her, but I still couldn't eat with my hands chained to my back.
• She turned to leave the room, but I quickly stopped her.
• "Err... Ma'am, I... I can't eat with my...." I stammered, and she clenched her fist in fury.
• Fear gripped me, and I held my breath praying within myself that she doesn't hurt me.
• I've already been beaten up so badly, and I wouldn't want her to add it up.
• My whole body hurts, my head was aching me so badly. My skin badly bruised.
• I guess this is my own hell on Earth.
• The fierce lady walked to me, and grasped my neck.
• Her grip was so tight, and I choked helplessly, but she didn't care about that.
• "How dare you call me 'ma'am'? Do you know who I am?" She stared at me with disdain.
• "Please... Please I'm really sorry" I continued gasping for breath before she pushed me roughly.
• "Don't you ever in your miserable life call me ma'am again. I'm called Lioness" She replied before unlocking the keys used to lock the chains in my hand.
• She glared at me for the last time before leaving the dungeon where I was locked up.
• Hot tears circulated my eyes, and rolled down gradually.
• Just last week, I was free, and I lived my life the way I want to.
• I looked around the empty cold cell, and then thought of my new Master.
• Cold shivers ran down my spine, and I sniffed hard.
• I can't even tell how many days I've been here as a slave, because I haven't seen the sun since then. Weird enough, I haven't even seen my new Master.
• All I know is that he is called "Stone", and I also heard that he is a dreadful human being.
• How would I even be able to escape from here?
• The cell that I'm in doesn't even have any window only a small door that one can pass through by bending.
• The only way air could get in was through the holes on the wall.
• "You're doomed Madison! There is no way you're getting out of here, I guess this is your destiny"
• I kept saying those words to myself each time I thought of escaping.
• The door was chained with the biggest chains, and padlock that I've ever seen in my life.
• You might be wondering how I became a slave, let me introduce myself to you.
• My name is Madison Adams, and I'm 21 years old. Like every other person, I lived with my family though not biological family.
• My biological father died when I was four years old, so my mother remarried.
• She took me with her to her new husband's house, where she later had a son, Jeffrey.
• Her husband had a son Arnold, who was about six years older than I am. I lived with them like my family because they're only ones I consider family.
• My stepfather was a good for nothing man. All he did was drink, gamble and borrow money from people.
• My mother kept on paying his debts each time the people he borrowed money from came to get their money back.
• I felt sorry for her, but there was nothing I could do.
• Few years later, my mother died too. I was left with my stepfather and my stepbrothers, Arnold and Jeffrey.
• That was the beginning of my plight, I started doing all kinds of work to make sure that my mother's son Jeffrey finished high school because my stepfather and Arnold didn't care.
• Arnold has always wanted to have me in his bed, but I refused, so life became even tougher because he made life unbearable for me.
• I managed to survive through all of it until that hot afternoon when I came back home from the work.
• Immediately I stepped into the house, I saw my stepfather and stepbrothers lying on the bare ground with about three thugs pointing their guns at them.
• My little brother Jeffery was sobbing, and I felt pierced in the chest.
• My stepfather pointed at me, and told them that I could be used as a payment to the loan he borrowed from Master Stone.
• I was shocked because everyone knows that Stone is a very ruthless man even though I don't know who he is.
• My stepfather used me to pay for the loan he got from the heartless Alpha "Stone".
• This was how I ended up a slave, and lost my freedom.
• What awaits me in the castle of the ruthless Alpha?.....
• TBC.....