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You’re gonna be hurt either way, dummy.
I couldn’t stop my breath from coming out in fast puffs. I couldn’t get enough oxygen.
“Relax, my pet,” the man said and placed a hand on my shoulder.
Not rough but disgusting, nonetheless. His hand stroked down to my elbow. I tried so hard not to but I couldn’t stop myself from shrugging off his touch.
Mistake.
The sting of his slap set my cheek on fire.
“I said relax, pet. It’s time for you to get used to my touch.”
Never! I shouted in my head.
Louis smiled.
“She’s got spirit,” Louis told the man.
“So you said,” the man returned. “I’ll enjoy breaking her of it.”
Panic swam in my stomach.
I couldn’t sit there and let that happen to me.
I had to do something.
Anything.
I’d rather die trying to escape than let him break me.
Fuck this.
And fuck him.
I shifted my bare feet under the table, preparing to shove my chair back, and inched my bottom to the edge of the chair.
Louis and the man went back to their conversation.
This is it.
I was going to make a run for it.
In…three…two…
I never got to one.
Louis stopped speaking mid-sentence.
Suddenly, blood dripped down his forehead. Unlike in the movies his body didn’t blow back nor did he immediately hunch over. No, he stayed upright with his eyes freakishly open, staring ahead.
The man next to me moved. I dodged his hand and shoved out of the chair. He reached for me again but that was as far as he got. Red stained his white shirt, he tipped to the side and went down, hitting the table before knocking over a chair and landing awkwardly on the bricks.
That was my cue to run.
I took off toward the lawn, tripped, and landed hard on my hands and knees.
Stupid goddamn dress.
