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“But you watched me, too, all the time. It was as if you were constantly assessing me, gauging what was acceptable, what you could say or do that wouldn’t upset me too much. I soon caught on to it. I started testing how far I could push you. And you let me push.”

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“You were the strongest man I’d ever seen. If you decided to, you could kill me so easily. Just a little push from your hands and I’d be strangled; just a little punch and my brain would explode. There’d be nothing I could do. One blunt knife under a mattress was no match against you.”

the only fmc who when got abducted and doesn’t sexualise everything abt the abductor

“you were saying. “Please … don’t.”

But I turned away from you and ran straight into the pond. I let the water cover me as I sank down, down, into the cold, dark deepness, and my hair got tangled up and caught in the weeds.”

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“I closed my eyes. Behind my lids it was dark and calmer and I sunk into it. I didn’t move or make a sound. I retreated, stepping back through my mind, through the couch and floorboards, until I reached that dark, cool place underneath the house where I curled up in the dirt. There, I waited for the snake to find me.

There was nothing else I could do

…. only wait for the dreams.”
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“But my body and my brain and my insides had frozen solid and nothing would thaw them. I had slipped down, down into a dark, dark, empty place. You were saying something to me, your voice muted. I didn’t want to surface. The truth was too hard to hear.”

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