13: Save Us

EDEN

I felt like a doll. Raven and three other women had come into my room a few minutes after Roman left. I was still standing there looking like a frightened child when they walked in.

They scrubbed, cleaned and shaved every part of my body. It was like I had dirt even where I didn't know there could be dirt. And they cleaned it because I felt squeaky clean after.

I just sat there and let them do their thing because I couldn't even argue.

The realization that I had fallen into a trap that I couldn't get out of was hitting me by the minute and I couldn’t form two words in my head to say to anyone.

With the way I was being pushed and pulled, I could feel the baby bouncing inside me.

The baby.

One thing that troubled me even more than what was going on was the fact that whenever I referred to the baby, I always called her a she.

Roman doesn't want a daughter. What was j going to do if the baby turned out to be a girl? He'd kill me. I was sure of it.

“I’ll come back tomo