It's your mother.

I looked at Matthew in shock, I didn't understand what I just heard.

"I understand that we were supposed to do some finding on her before we found ourselves in this mess, so how did she end up here?" I asked him in confusion,

"That I cannot answer, but what I have to say is that your intuition was right all along, she was just pretending not to know you, she's was planning something all along" he said as he flexed his jaw, "those cowards practically used me as their punching bag, bunch of morons,"

"Am really confused Att, why do you think she's working with him, what is she aiming at?.....

"This also means he already knows my father is the Mexican Don, the more reason for him to keep me, am sure he thinks my father sent me," I said as I exhale in exhaustion, am so hungry, now am thinking back to all the times I've deliberately not eaten even though food was just in front of me, I was currently facing "appreciate what you have till you have it no more."

At least I had Matthew with me,...."we are cool right?" I asked him as I stare at his face for his reaction, he gave me a smile then said "am a little shocked, but I understand why you did it, I prefer that am here with you, because I would have been so worried if I didn't know where you are, God, that would have been horrible."

"So how did they manage to get a strong dude like you?" I asked him mockingly, he just shrugged his shoulder before he answered me,

"Well I was driving home when I got surrounded, at first I thought it was an accident because of the way they roughly turned their car, but before I realized that it was a plot, two guys already got in my car because the door was open as I was about coming out to check the commotion, they had their guns pointed at me, another guy came to the window still pointing the gun at me, he motioned for me to leave the drivers seat and I did, like hell, who wouldn't, not when you have three guns pointed at you, they knew that leaving my car on the road would bring questions, so those idiots kidnapped me with my own car,"

I laughed at the way he said the last part with so much bitterness, it was nothing to laugh about but the way he kept his face like he took sour grape, it was funny.

My legs were beginning to itch me as the blood from the burn has started drying on my skin, making my skin to shrink, it wasn't a pleasant sight, I closed my eyes to contain the pain as I started shaking my legs.

"Are you okay?" he asked as he stood up from where he was sitting making his way to me,..." that bastard, look what he has done to your beautiful skin," he said as knelt down and started blowing on the wound, it helped a little but the pain wasn't stopping, I gestured for him to come closer and he did,....."I think he has bottles of alcohols stores in one of those drawers, it could help with cleaning the wound" I whispered as I gestured to him with my head towards where torture weapons of different types were kept.

Matthew made his way towards where I pointed, he opened the first drawer and it was locked, he tried the second the same thing, he then tried two more before one finally opened,.."got it," he said as I saw him raise a bottle up in victory, he quickly made his way back to my form tied on a chair, we found a small piece of cloth as he poured the alcohol on the cloth and cleaned the wound gently, sheesh, it hurts so much, I clenched my fist because of the pain.

After he had cleaned the wound he discarded the cloth as he came back to take my hand,...."feeling better?" he asked, I could see the concern in his eyes like he wanted nothing more than to take away the pain and the pain his eyes also contained knowing he could do nothing.

As a way of lighting the mood of the room I decided to tease him a little,..."damn you stink man, when was the last time you had a bath? I asked wrinkling my nose in fake disgust, he just rolled his eyes at me knowing I was joking.

"I can't wait to chop off that annoying man's head," Matthew suddenly said and I could see the intent clearly written on his face,....

"I'll back you up, I want his tongue cut off, he threatened to cut mine after all," I said and we both burst out into laughter.

Our little bubble of peace was disturbed by the opening of the door, as the beast stepped in, just the person I wanted to see.

"I see you guys are enjoying your time, hope you've bonded enough? he. asked as he made his way towards me,

"We actually were having a good time till a dark cloud walked in, it seems you miss my presence and decided to come check on me, as you can see, am doing good, but will do better without your presence," I said as I looked him square in the face, I was well aware that only the sound of my voice was annoying him, no matter how hard he was trying to look emotionless.

There was this glint in his eyes, like he suddenly remembered why he was here, nothing good comes from that look of his.

"Since you,"...he pointed to me then to Matthew,...."want some more bonding time, am going to grant you your request, count yourselves lucky, it's not everyday you get me to do what you want," he said as he made himself comfortable on a chair in the corner of the room.

I have a bad feeling about this, nothing about what he just said sounded right, it didn't make sense to me, but we'll soon find out what this devil is up to.

"How about we make your bonding time a bit interesting, something for you to remember, how about that? the beast asked and I could see the pure malice in his eyes, this time I didn't say anything, rather it was Matthew that answered him;

"What is your evil mind up to now?"
I turned to Matthew sending him a message through my eyes, showing him I was wondering the same thing. Seeing our confused look, I think he decided to make thing clear he spoke, but I was sure his words were directed to Matthew

"Let's see if your little friend can save you,"

I didn't understand what he meant till three of his minions came forward, all of them making their way to Matthew, I guess they realized one of them cannot handle him.

Two of them started dragging him,....."get your dirty hands off him you little morons, I swear if you touch him I'll kill you," I said struggling with my restrain, I knew clearly that I couldn't do anything with my position, I was stocked.

I watched as they dragged him and pushed him to the wall that had chains stuck in it, I didn't notice this before, they had his hands chained then his legs, no matter how he was struggling, they didn't let him go, after the bastards were done chaining him, they turned to their master as if waiting for further instructions. Just as expected he turned to me and then gave them an order to free me.

They loosened the ropes they tied on my hands and legs, the idiots knew I was wounded on my legs but they didn't care as they dragged me up forcefully from the chair, I had to hold in the screen, fuck it hurts so much, this bastards would pay, I promise.

Because of the force they used, the burn which had dried up opened again and started bleeding, my legs were even shaking.

I turned to look at Matthew because I was very confused, I hope this is not the part where they force me to kill my best friend because that won't happen, I rather die than do that, the look in Matthew's eyes told me he was as confused as me, but he was also telling me to be strong, and for him, I would.

"Since you guys saw each other, you've done nothing but talk, but I decided to make your bonding interesting, you must be wondering what I mean, okay I'll show you," he said as I watch him go towards the table he had different sizes of knifes kept, he picked one of the knife, then walked towards the wall opposite where Matthew was chained, don't tell me he wants to play dart, with Matthew as the dart board and the knife as the dart.

But he didn't do what I was expecting, but instead turned away from Matthew and inserted the knife with the bottom into something in the wall that looked like a holder, the moment he inserted the knife, he tried to pull it off but the knife didn't even move, now I get why he was doing it, he knew clearly that I was watching him, he was showing me how hard it is to bring out the knife once it is inside that holder, but I still don't get what he is doing for.

"This knife has exactly fourty nine minutes to stay like this, the moment it is placed inside this holder, the time start counting, and when the time is up, it shot straight ahead, straight forward, he said turning away from the knife to look at me,....."what you my darling will do is to find a way to pull this knife out before the last minute, or you know who is directly opposite this wall, and if you think you can be a smarty pant and wait for the perfect time to push the knife towards another direction, you won't even see when it pulls off the wall, you'll only see when it is buried inside it's target." he said and I can see amusement in his eyes, he found the situation amusing while I was already breaking on the inside.

So many what if we're already beginning to swim in my head, what if I don't pull out the knife on time? what if today is the day I die? what if Matthew dies because of me? no I couldn't let myself think that, we will make it, I would show this beast.

"Well good luck saving your friend,  you have about fourty three minutes left, have fun," he said before walking out of the room whistling with his minions following behind him.

As I heard the sound of the door locking the situation finally came clear on me, I have fourty three minutes to either save Matthew or be the cause of his death.

It was like a bucket of cold water just got poured on me all over again, I quickly moved into action ignoring the pain in my legs.

Matthew who had been watching everything silently finally spoke;

"Well this is the day I finally die,"

"Shut up, am trying to think," I said as I took an axe from the table and went to where the knife was placed, I hit the first time, nothing, the second time, still nothing, even after twenty something times of trying, still nothing, what kind of knife was this?

"Calm down Cara," Matthew said, I don't know if it's the fear of thinking he'll die, but he had been quite the whole time, there was no way I was going to let him die.

There was no time placed for me to check, so I was so nervous, all my mind was telling me was to hurry up, because anytime soon, anything could happen, I kept on trying, I abandoned the axe  and took a knife from the table trying to open a hole in the wall maybe I could pull out whatever was holding the knife, but was I hit the wall, it was the sound of metal I heard.

Frustrated tears started streaming down my eyes, I couldn't let Matthew die.

"You know, instead of struggling to pull that knife that would eventually kill me any moment now, why don't you use my last minute talking to me, you know I want to hear what kind of life you'll live once you're out of here," he said, even though he was trying to act tough I could hear the pain in his voice, the pain of death, of not seeing your loved once again.

"Will you stop talking rubbish," I said in a cracked voice, this was hard, I could tell we didn't have much time, I looked around for anything that could pull the knife, but everything I was seeing was useless.

I have been avoiding looking at Matthew since because I couldn't dare face him, I just couldn't, but I finally looked at him, he gave me a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes, I looked above his head, and there I found a timer, shit we had only two minute left, what am I gonna do, the one minute left had already began the count down and men was it fast.

Just at the last second, I found something as I shouted;

Matthew!!!

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This is so funny, am the person writing but my heart was also beating. Lol

Hope you guys like this chapter.

Am dedicating this chapter to all the best friends in the world.