Captive by Ann Voss Peterson

Author:Ann Voss Peterson [Peterson, Ann Voss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AVP
Published: 2020-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

Diana

The shadows in the room grew until there was nothing but darkness. Diana was starving, her throat dry.

He’d left hours ago…

Or had it been minutes?

Diana tried to withdraw into her thoughts, her memories. For comfort. To pass the time. But she couldn’t seem to focus on happy times. She’d try to relive road trips with Bobby and wedding planning with Sylvie, even the beautiful but cold house she grew up in, yet her mind would stray to awful images, some she wasn’t sure were even real.

Her father reaching under her skirt and pinching her inner thighs until they were purple with bruises. Then laughing and daring her to tell.

The contempt on Mother’s face when Daddy left. Contempt for her.

Bobby bleeding.

Bobby dead.

The faces would change in front of her eyes. Interchangeable as Halloween masks. The awfulness playing over and over. Other horrors too. And her not being able to say anything. Not being able to scream. Not being able to help herself at all.

And through all of it, a dark shadow would be standing in the doorway, silently watching. And then gone, gone, gone.

When would he be back?

What would he do then?

And what would become of her if he never came back at all?

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