Black Light: The Menagerie (Black Light Series Book 25) by Maren Smith

Author:Maren Smith [Smith, Maren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Collar Press
Published: 2022-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

True to his word, when Puppy awoke the next morning, there under her pillow where she’d hidden it the night before, her cellphone was flashing a little blue light in homage of the text message she’d received from Carlson. Although she was braced for him to back out of everything, whatever he’d thought about over the course of the night had not induced him to change his mind.

With the window shade drawn to block the morning light, the room was just dark enough to make out Pony’s quilt-covered lump on her cot by the closet. It was impossible to tell with Pony, but she looked to be asleep. Pulling her blanket up over her head to hide the telltale light, she curled onto her side around her phone and checked her messages.

I’ve sent you an email, the simple text read. Enjoy your day!

Puppy almost panicked. How could she check that without anyone knowing? Her mother would let her use her laptop if she asked, but she’d stand right there and watch the entire time she was online. Anything Carlson had sent her, her mother would read. She needed to wait, she decided, phone cradled in her hands. She could go to the library print it out and read it in the—wait…

She stared at the cell phone in her hands, its soft lit screen dimming in a prelude to winking back off into standby. She tapped back out of messages and looked at the internet symbol. Ethen’s control over her life had been so utter and so complete. Nothing had belonged to her while she’d been with him. Not her clothes, not her phone, not even the things she’d bought herself long before she became his property and his pet.

The day she moved into his house, he’d taken her phone and given her another. One that he could access on his computer. One that he monitored daily, checking it religiously to see where she was going and what she was doing. Access to social media had been a punishable offense in Ethen’s house. If she was not at work, her time was strictly occupied by his carefully policed routines that kept her attention on him, not Facebook. To her, phones were not a link to friends and family or a source of entertainment. Literally, it was a piece of the enemy that she kept forever attached to her body so that he could monitor her every minute of every day. Even now, having been free of him for over a year, she barely used it.

Hiding under the blankets in her bed so Pony wouldn’t see the light, for the first time, Puppy set up her phone so she could access her Yahoo mail account. Her heart racing, trying not to feel like she was doing something awful and wrong, she read what he had sent her. It was a list of rules.

#1 You will message me every morning first thing when you wake up and again at night right before you go to sleep.

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