Vengeance by Coopmans Kathy

Author:Coopmans, Kathy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Coopmans, Inc.
Published: 2018-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Ivy

I woke a bit ago to the grumbling of my stomach and a pounding headache.

Clarity and misperception of fears both past and present.

“I just want to get out of here.” The suppressed feelings that have been buried and locked away for so many years have escaped their prison, running freely through my skull. Every lash, every name, every drive into my body by Drew is doing everything to try and terrorize me all over again.

An anxiety attack rises inside the calm of my storm. The blizzard conditions inside of me cause my brain to freeze and the air around me stills. If I let it, it will become so thick it will murk what I’ve dreamed of having.

Freedom.

Earlier when Cade was pushing was the first time I saw my life through someone else’s eyes. It wasn’t pretty. It was downright ugly. For reasons Drew kept tossing in my face, I came to a conclusion living with him was my destiny. Life in hell with freedom so far away and yet out of my reach that no matter how far I stretched, I couldn’t clutch it firmly enough to hold on.

Physically, I might be healing, but mentally and emotionally, I’m far more messed up than I thought I was. I never realized just how much until Cade reached in with his bare hands and tore me open.

Such a strange thing to be done when the day I found out he was alive, I felt these walls trying to open me wide.

I was never blinded by the fact I was breaking a little more each day. I was too closed off to see it. I stapled my heart shut, closed off my mind like a lost woman at sea who’d given up on ever being rescued. I had intentions to save myself until Drew stripped those thoughts away.

“He’s not here to take your freedom away, Ivy.” Will I ever feel truly safe? Will I ever be free and if I am, where in the hell am I supposed to go? I don’t have my identification. I have no money. I have nothing. I’m dependent on a man once again, and I don’t like it. A man I want with all that is within me.

Drew tried to rob me of the glue and tape necessary to put my soul back together. Apart from breaking me, and relishing every moment he could slip inside of me. His menacing eyes darting all over my face and body while he desperately filled his sickly desire by beating me and taking what should have been mine to give. He didn’t break me beyond repair.

Sliding out of bed, I let the towel fall to the floor, look down at my healing bruises and ugly scars when an uneasy feeling settles around me.

That scent. Vanilla and him. Masculine.

I hate him.

I want him.

I need him.

Being here with him is going to break me if I don’t prove to myself I’m strong enough to push the demons from our past out of both of us.

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