Page 33 of Possessing Eden

Freezing in terror, I look to the door to see a man standing in the open doorway. His silhouette illuminated by the light glowing behind him.

I can’t see his face from here.

But it doesn’t matter.

Every little instinct I possess knows it’s him. Knows it’s Jude.

And knows the second he spots me.

The very air thickens around me with suffocating heaviness.

“There you are…” he says ominously as he starts walking.

Letting the door slam shut behind him, the alley is thrown back into total darkness.

My eyes strain, but I can’t see shit.

It’s hopeless. I know it’s fucking hopeless, but I can’t die without fighting.

I have to at least attempt to save myself.

Swallowing back a cry, I make a run for it. In one fucking heel.

But it’s worse than trying to run in two of them.

I’m even slower and hurting myself with every step. Hobbling like an injured animal.

I make it maybe six or seven feet before I sense him directly behind me.

“Where are you running to, angel?” he breathes heavily as he grabs me. “Heaven is in the other direction.”

“No!” I shout as he grabs me by the hips and tries to throw me up against the wall.

Some innate, feral desire to survive taking over me, I do my best to fight him off.

Kicking, hitting, and thrashing, I’m a creature of pure, wild instinct as he struggles to trap me.

I get at least two good hits in before he gets a firm grip on both of my wrists and crushes me with his weight, flattening me against the brick.

Ribs compressed, I can barely move or breathe.

But I refuse to go out like this.

Overpowered by a man.

Again.

When bucking my hips and jamming my knees into his legs doesn’t budge him, I resort to biting whatever is closest to my mouth.

“Fuck!” he grunts as I desperately try to cut my teeth through the fabric of his shirt.

Releasing one of my wrists, he grabs me by the hair and tries to pull me off his shoulder.

But all he does is pull off my wig.

Tossing the wig away in disgust, he grabs my hair, fists it, and yanks my head back on my neck. “Would you stop that!”

“Let me go!” I shout in his face.

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