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He doesn’t.
Marcus strides through the vast room toward the closet he keeps locked at all times. He’s the one who chooses my daily outfits, picking out the garments that please him. I don’t go in there.
Today, I will.
“Here we are. You need me to shock you again, little doll. To do something abrupt.” He maintains a firm hold on the back of my legs while fishing a key from his pocket. “I’m the one who’s been failing. You’re my responsibility. You’re mine to look after. I’ve been too lenient. Trying hard to hide what I am so you’d get comfortable around me.”
The lock on the door clicks. I hear the doorknob twist and the whoosh of the door as he pushes it open.
My tummy swoops. I dread what’s hiding in there.
He’d already shown me the pictures. Already told me he tampered with my pills. Jerked off on my face while I slept.
What else could possibly shock me? What could be worse than this?
More toys? An X-cross to hang me on for days while he drinks my blood slowly?
The dead body of the man-child who tried to rape me in my freshman year in college? I mean, I made Ry swear not to tell, but if Marcus has been stalking me—
“No.” A shiver runs up my spine, and I whimper. “No. Tell me he’s not…tell me h-h-he…”
Marcus’s low growl sends a wave of tremors through me. “I fucking wish it was Anthony’s mutilated corpse I’m hiding here.”
What?
“How do you know about Anthony?”
Marcus doesn’t spin me to the room yet.
“Rylan and I share a cloud,” he explains in a low, determined voice.
“You read all her messages?”
“Only your conversations with her.” His fingers dig into my thighs. The rage he hides in his voice is ever-present in his violence. “You’re lucky to have had Rylan there. So is he. If she wouldn’t have kicked his ass and fractured his miserable dick, I would’ve. I wouldn’t have stopped there.”
I am lucky for my best friend. Rylan’s been going to self-defense classes for as long as I can remember. She’d been diligent, making sure she could fight against anyone who tried to attack her.
That night, it paid off. She saved my life. Anthony dragged me to a dark corner in a frat house party. No one heard me screaming over the music. Rylan looked for me when I disappeared.
She found me bent over with my skirt up and my underwear down, screaming. Anthony was there too, holding his cock, about to rape me.
She did what she had to. She protected me. Her quick and furious actions sent Anthony crying like the bitch he was to the hospital.
My bestie is a badass.
Eventually, I’m sure I’d have been able to open up to Marcus. There’s no use anymore. Apparently, he discovered my secret long ago. Through the texts Rylan and I exchanged to document the whole story. Just in case Anthony filed a complaint against us, which, lucky for him, he hasn’t.
“She saved me.” A sudden wave of longing deflates me. “And I’m pretending like she doesn’t exist.”
Marcus bites my ass, jolting me. Reminding me of what we’re doing in this doorway. He puts me down on the floor, hands on my shoulders.
Preparing to twist me to face the closet.
“Stop.” As a last-ditch attempt to convince him, I grip his shirt, glancing up. “Whatever’s in there, I don’t want it. I don’t want to be afraid of you. Let’s try hypnosis again.”
“No.” Cold eyes and a colder voice. “This is for your own good.”
“Please.”
