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“And if I told you that wasn’t an option, you…”
“Would tell you to fuck off. You don’t have me locked in a room with you anymore. We’re back in the real world, and you can’t force me to do anything with you ever again.”
Oh, how adorably wrong she is.
I smile faintly and let her have her moment, though.
She’ll figure out the truth soon enough.
Chapter Six
Sophie
I cannot get out of that godforsaken mansion fast enough.
Silvan Koch is fucking crazy.
I’m never going back there.
I’m never goinganywhereever again.
I was right, and Mom was wrong; going places is terrible.
Hermit life is the life for me.
At least at home, I’m safe.
Safe from Silvan’s wild eyes, safe from his dangerous touch.
Safe from the things he wants to do to me.
I try not to think about it as I return home to a dark house and lock the doors.
It’s impossible.
When I strip off my clothes and take a quick, scalding-hot shower, it’s like I can still feel his depraved kisses peppering my skin. The imprint of his lips might as well be burned into my flesh, inked there like a tattoo for all the world to see.
I scrub harder but only succeed in agitating my skin, not ridding myself of the feeling of being touched by him.
Touchedeverywhere.
The man had no shame whatsoever.
I tell myself it doesn’t matter since I’ll never see that creep again.
I pull on plaid pajama pants and a T-shirt and curl up in my old bed.
I tell myself I’m not dirty, and I’m not marked. Come tomorrow, Silvan Koch will be so insignificant to my life, I’ll practically forget him.
I don’t know him anyway.
He’s a stranger I spent a scary evening in an escape room with, nothing more.
I’ll never see him again, and after tonight, I’ll never think about him again, either.
He may have stolen access to my body, but he doesn’t deserve to live in my mind.
Settling into bed, I pull the warm down comforter around my body, snuggling up beneath it to stave off the cold.
