Chapter 43 - The truth

Author’s note

This chapter contains a graphic descriptions of rape, readers please be advised, to read at your own risk …

Ashley POV

“Tobias likes to play a game”, I let out feeling the skin on my body get warm. I hate thinking about this, I hate what he did to me and the effect that it has had on my mental health and on my life. I swallow hard and look down at my hands, finding the courage to tell him.

***** Flashback ******

There it is, the sound I dread every day. The gun. I know what I have to do. I grab my shoes and put them on as fast as I can. I need to hide, and I need to run. I open the bedroom door and look both ways on the corridor, no sign of Tobias. I sprint to the end and down the big staircase. The marble floor is wet and very slippery. I can’t run, or I’ll break a leg, and then it will be a lot worse.

Slowly I walk towards the kitchen. The chef is preparing dinner, and I look at the pantry. I look big enough for me to find a row to hide, but then I will have witn