In the trimester of my pregnancy, I was suddenly kidnapped into a small dark room.

When I saw my husband walk in, I thought I saw my savior, but he stepped on my hand.

"From now on, you have three hours to seek help. As long as one of them comes to your rescue, I'll let you go. How's that?"

He referred to three group chats on my phone, one for my parents' family group, one for my brother and sister-in-law's family group and one for my in-law's family group.

"Think about who to contact first, after all, every time you are rejected, you will get beaten up."

Later, I was finally rescued. Seeing that I was covered in blood, they just kept begging me for a letter of forgiveness.

However, they did not know that the person they were protecting was the one who would ruin their lives.

***

I curled up on the ground, trying to minimize my presence as much as possible.

Just as I heard footsteps, I still looked over hopefully.

To my surprise, the person who came in was my husband, Leonard Roxburgh.

"What on earth do you want to do? It's not enough to arrest me, you want to arrest my husband as well!"

Leonard smiled mysteriously and evilly when I shouted these words and he glanced at the people behind him who were approaching me.

I was so scared that I shrunk back, but one of them grabbed my hair and dragged me forward.

They left me right in front of Leonard. I laid on the ground miserably, trying to reach out and touch Leonard's trouser, but I felt a piercing pain.

"With your dirty hands, do you think you're worthy of touching me?”

Then, he crushed my hand with his foot, gritting his teeth and said, "From now on, you have three hours to seek help. As long as one of them comes to your rescue, I'll let you go. How's that?"

I looked at those three group chats and felt a bit confused for a moment. They were all my relatives, but would they save me?

Seeing me not react, he crushed my hand even harder.

"Think about who to contact first, after all, every time you are rejected, you will get beaten up."

I looked at him in disbelief.

"Do you know what you're doing now?"

I held my stomach with my other hand and said word by word, "I'm pregnant with your child!"

I thought it would be a surprise. Just a second ago, I was still imagining how happy he would be when he found out. But the next second, I did not expect that I would be dragged into this room.

And the initiator was the father of my child!

Leonard smiled, but his smile did not seem happy.

It was mockery!

"You are not worthy of bearing my child. Otherwise, why do you think I chose this moment to implement my plan?" Leonard said, signaling his men to drag me into the room and then all of them went out.

"Tell me, which one should we call?"

I refused to say anything. I could not believe my husband, who had always been gentle and considerate, would be so vicious.

However, the slap I got forced me to believe that the person in front of me was the man who had slept in the same bed with me for a year.

His slap landed heavier and heavier on my face. At first, I felt pain, but later I just felt numb, so numb that I felt dizzy.

Perhaps he was tired of slapping me, he finally stopped and shouted. "Who should we call first?"

I admitted that I was scared at that moment. I wanted to live. Leonard was like a roaring beast without any humanity!

I endured the pain and opened my mouth, but before I could say anything, he threw another slap.

"I have endured you for a long time and you have always been pretending to be weak! Why aren't you the one who died!"

I looked over in shock, only to receive another slap.

"What are you looking at! Go over there and call yourself!"

Leonard sat down, panting and staring at me.

I struggled to stand up, but as soon as I stood up, he kicked me far away.

"Did I ask you to get up?"

I was thrown and hit the corner of the table, but luckily, it did not hit my stomach.

But, I felt a warm sensation on my forehead.

I raised my hand and wiped it. It was blood.

I stared at him and questioned, "What on earth do you want? We are so in love and you ...."

"Shut up!"

Leonard shouted and rushed over, then slapped me again.

"Every time I get close to you, I feel extremely disgusted! We are in love? Who do you think you are? You're not even worthy of carrying my shoes!"

He put his mobile phone in front of me and instructed. "Call!"

My hands trembled, then I clicked on my parent's family's group chat and made a group video call.

To my surprise, they picked up the call very quickly.

"Mr. Roxburgh, is there something you want to order by calling at this hour?”

I shouted in a trembling voice. "Mom ...."

As soon as she heard me speak, my aunt, Miranda Davis, immediately picked up the phone and said, "Oh, you damn girl, why did you take Mr. Roxburgh's phone? You don't even show your face when you make a video call to your elders? I don't know how your parents taught you."

I cried out. "Mom, save me! Save me! He's going to beat me to death!"

My mother, Georgina Davis, seemingly unwilling to believe, her voice came from her phone. "Yvette, don't be willful. Mr. Roxburgh is so nice, how could he hit you? Look how good Mr. Roxburgh is to us, he even let us go on vacation abroad."

As she spoke, the camera flashed through the surrounding scenery and my aunt and uncle's family were also there.

Thinking of Leonard's words that he would let me go as long as one of them came to save me, I suddenly wanted to catch my savior so badly.

With so many family members, at least one of them would come to my rescue, right?

I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself so I could speak more clearly.

Leonard just watched me with interest and without any intention of stopping.

I slowly moved the camera over.

"Mom, I'm not lying to you. He's trying to kill me! He locked me up in the small dark room and didn't let me go out. He even beat me. Look at me!"

But, at the end, I started to choke up.

At this moment, my father, Edward Kiehl, spoke up, "When a man and a woman get married and live together, it is natural for them to have a fight sometimes. I think Leonard is a good guy. If he wants to beat you to death, then you must be misbehaving!"

Then, my uncle, Anthony Hawke, also said, "Yvette, our family relies on Mr. Roxburgh, so you have to serve him well!"

"That's right, I heard that rich people all have some little quirks. As a wife, you should learn and serve your husband well so as not to suffer any loss!"

Now my aunt's voice came and she was chewing something in her mouth.

Since I was a child, I had always known that my relatives were greedy for money. But I never expected, even when I was kidnapped and tortured, not only do they not care about me, but they keep blaming me!

"Mom! Look at me! Look at me! Is it my fault that he beat me like this?"

Until this moment, I saw that everyone in the video started to dodge. It turned out that they all knew that it was not a joke, but they just did not care.

"I didn't do anything. He just kidnapped me and wanted to beat me to death. He said that as long as one of you ... um ...."

Leonard covered my mouth and looked at me fiercely.

His grasp was so strong that it almost suffocated me.

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.