I finally heard my mother's voice at this moment.
"Yvette! Yvette! What's wrong with you? Are you still there?"
I tried desperately to pry Leonard's hands away, but I did not have that much strength and he grasped me even tighter.
The suffocating sensation spread and I felt like I could not hold on any longer, but at this moment, he let go of me.
I did not care about anything else, panting heavily and coughing fiercely.
"Oh, Georgina, they are just a couple having fun, why are you asking so many questions?" said my aunt trying to divert my mother's worries.
"That's right, I can hear it from here that the young couple is having fun. Auntie, we should go out for a walk. We've been waiting for you for a long time," said my cousin in a hurry, then the moment he finishes his words, the video call hung up.
I was just gasping for breath, but then I choked up. I looked over in despair and Leonard smiled sinisterly as his phone hit my head.
The phone fell to the ground and my head started bleeding even more.
When I collapsed on the ground, he sat directly on me.
I panicked and tried to protect my stomach, but he put on a fierce and cruel look.
"A woman like you is such a slut! You're trying to please my parents just to have a child, but you're not even afraid of being beaten by me!"
Even though he said such a cruel and mean words, he did not hit my stomach.
I thought he still had humanity.
But the next second, a slap landed on my head with a crackling sound.
"I told you, you'd get beaten once you failed to get a rescue!"
I laid on the ground begging for mercy, but he became more and more excited as he hit me.
"What you are enduring now is not even one thousandth of what she is enduring. Why can't you bear it? Huh?" he said while grabbing my hair and forcing me to look at him.
I did not know who the "she" he was talking about and I did not know where his hatred for me was from.
"She? Who is she?" I asked out loud, but instead of getting an answer, I got a hard slap in the face.
"You don't deserve to know her name!"
I knew that the only way I could save myself now was to keep myself calm.
So, I tentatively said,
"You just said that you would let me go as long as they agreed to come and rescue me, but you didn't say that I couldn't tell the truth. Did you cover my mouth just now because you wanted to go back on your word? Or are you afraid that my family will have some humanity and come to rescue me?"
Leonard did not expect me to ask this, or perhaps this question touched his nerves and he was thinking about it.
I took this opportunity to think about how I should persuade the people whom I called later to come and save me if he or she did not agree.
But then, another slap came.
"Bitch! Do you think you are someone that everyone loves? Even if I asked you to, do you really think they would come to save you?"
I held back my tears and replied, "Since you don't believe it, let's give it a try."
The man snorted coldly. "Put away your little thoughts, no one can save you today!"
He took the phone which looked broken in several parts and handed it over.
"Go on. I won't interrupt this time."
The playful look in his eyes was like he was certain no one would save me.
I calmed myself down for the moment and called my brother’s group chat.
Like my parents, he answered almost in seconds.
"Oh, Leonard, is there anything I can help you?"
That was my brother's voice. Although I tried to control myself, I still could not help but choke up a little.
"Elli, Leonard has kidnapped me, please, come and save me ...."
"What? What did you say? My signal is bad, I'm hanging up!"
The random beeping sound chilled me to the bone.
