Boxset: Sleeping with Monsters by Alexander Cassie

Author:Alexander, Cassie [Alexander, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Argus Industrial
Published: 2015-04-27T22:00:00+00:00

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I don’t know how much time passed, tied up, surrounded by cricket song.

I could find my door again if I had to. But who would bring me back? I waited, tears streaming down my face, wondering when Max would return, and what he would do when he got back.

The door to the cabin unlocked and he burst in. He was by the bed in three short strides, staring down, enraged. He reached out for my neck with both hands and I felt the span of his hands, his fingers touch in back and front, and knew this was it, I was going to die.

I closed my eyes and thought of Vincent, as he jumped back.

“You – you,” he stuttered, holding his hands to his chest like he was hugging a child. He stared at me, eyes wild, and then turned and went outside again.

What was wrong with him?

What was he going to do to me?

Minutes passed. The crickets started up again, and the door swung with a gentle breeze.

He returned a long time later without a shirt and with a resigned expression. I didn’t dare say anything or move. He made a sound of strangled frustration and then ripped my clothes off of me, tearing them along their seams, like I was wearing spiderwebs not denim. And then he untied me from the bed, everything except the gag, and picked me up over his shoulder to carry me out of the cabin, completely naked.

I struggled, but he was so much stronger than I was, and faster – I couldn’t hit him anywhere, his neck or knees or eyes. His arm trapped my waist on his shoulder, and his other arm held my legs down as I tried to kick him in mid-air.

He’s going to take me out into the woods and hold my limbs down with traps and pull off my head like a rabbit’s while he dances naked under the moon.

My head bobbed against his back and I stopped fighting – he was too strong, there was no point. All I needed to do now was concentrate on finding my door. I hadn’t summoned it in so long, but I knew it hadn’t gone far – it was always waiting inside me, yawning like an open mouth. All I’d have to do is let go and fall in. Vincent taught me how far I could bend and still come back – without him, all I’d have to do is let go.

It would feel just like drowning and then it’d all be over.

Max picked me up off of his shoulder and threw me. I sailed – not for the ground, but for my open door, ready to fall through at last and lock it behind me – when I landed with a splash in cold water.

The shock of the cold made my body a traitor, gasping and fighting for air. I wrestled my way up to the surface, coughing and panting, prying the gag out of my mouth.

I stroked away from the creek’s edge – he stood on the bank in moonlight, and I know that he can still see me.

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