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The traveling hands went higher, towards my breasts, and I couldn’t stop the involuntary whimper as he squeezed.

This couldn’t be happening. Not again. I thought I was supposed to be safe with these guys. They promised me that I would be safe.

“We’re going to kill you,” Ronan seethed. I still didn’t dare open my eyes. I didn’t want this moment to be more real than it already was. I also didn’t want to give any of these horrible men the satisfaction of seeing me cry.

His wandering hand went underneath my shirt, touching the bare skin of my stomach, and I squeezed my eyes further shut.

I ignored the guys’ growls; I ignored the heavy panting of the pervert behind me; I ignored the growing hardness jabbing into my back.

Fighting the urge to vomit, I prayed to whatever God was listening that I could make it out of this unscathed. My life had never been fair, but this? This was positively awful. Nothing could compare to this - the shame I felt, the guilt that it was somehow my fault, the disgust.

All I was capable of was a pathetic, “Please.”

I felt another body come up in front of me; I felt someone lick the lone tear that had escaped my traitorous eye.

Somewhere to the side, there was the sound of a shuffle. A gun went off. Something fell.

But those were distant sensations, ones that I couldn’t entirely focus on.

Screams. I was aware of screams.

The ground began to shake around me, and at first, I thought it was my own horror manifesting itself as a physical reality. Maybe I had truly lost my mind.

The bodies that were on either side of me were pulled away. The world continued to tremor around me.

I couldn’t stand. I didn’t want to stand.

Darkness, mercifully, consumed me.

* * *

They would tellme later that it was an earthquake.

It started off as a simple crack, like an egg that had been dropped but not completely destroyed, before the entire earth broke apart like a gaping mouth opening up to swallow. They said that the hotel caved in on itself, debris and asphalt joining the cars in the newly formed hole.

They said that Kyle and his friends “accidentally” found themselves inside the hole as well.

They wouldn’t tell me who pushed them, but I had my suspicions. After all, my guys did enjoy doing things as a team.

They thought I would be disgusted, horrified, angry at their blatant disrespect for life. And I did feel all those things, but for entirely different reasons than what the guys initially assumed.

I felt horrified that men like Kyle existed. What if he had found another girl, a younger one, who didn’t have the protection of seven amazing guys? How many victims had he had before me?

I tried not to dwell on that nauseating fact, but bile still managed to rise up in my throat. I didn’t want to think about what happened. I didn’t want to reminisce about how close he had been...

No. I wouldn’t think about that. I would push all my memories behind an immobile barrier. There would be a time when I would reflect on these thoughts, recollect on these daunting memories, but now wasn’t that time.

I had to be strong.

Forget. That was my motto. There were so many thoughts pressing against the forefront of my mind, but I ignored them all.

I knew that if I responded to the darkness’s seductive call, I would be lost. Already, I could feel my control slipping away.

I just had to bury those feelings until they were forgotten.

Always forgotten.

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