“Are you alright, my beauty?”
“I… I…”
I don’t quite understand why I feel so off. As though I’ve been drugged.
A gasp gets stuck in my throat as my eyes dart to the glass of water he’s just given me. I stumble back with the realization, but that doesn’t help the vertigo. If anything, it just makes it worse.
The motherfucker roofied me.
“What’s the matter?” Rokiades asks with a sickening smile that betrays him.
I shake my head, trying to clear the fog in my brain, but I don’t quite succeed. I can still see him, but everything’s fuzzy. My vision is impaired and my sense of dimensions are distorted.
“What did you give me?” I stammer.
“Oh, hardly anything. Just a little something to relax you.”
Oh God. The panic is real and immediate.I want to run, to scream.But I feel as though I’ve been paralyzed. I can still move, but everything is sloppy, clumsy, uncoordinated.If I tried to run, I’d probably faceplant before I got anywhere near the exit.
Where can I run to, anyway? He’s got me locked in this room with two men standing just outside the only door out of here.
I’m trapped.
“Please, no…”
“Don’t worry, my pet,” he says in an oily tone that makes my knees buckle with fear. “You’ll enjoy it.”
Enjoy it? Enjoy what?
Having successfully depleted my ability to fight back, he starts advancing on me. His hand drifts to his crotch, and that’s when I notice the bulge there. Pointed directly at me.
He’s going to rape me.
No. Not again.
Old wounds resurface. Old memories threaten to break through.
After all the time I’ve spent burying them, I don’t want those demons coming back up. I don’t know if I’ll survive relieving what I went through all those years ago.
Yannis starts unbuckling his pants.
I close my eyes. Reach for the bottle opener. If I’m going to go down, I’m going to go down fighting.
And then—
A crash.
An explosion.
The rage of screams and shattering glass.
The world seems to collapse on all sides, and all I can do is pray that whichever monster bursts through the door next isn’t as bad as the one who’s in here with me.