Chapter 8 - Olivia

Olivia -

The agonising screams woke me up. Panic and terror momentarily paralysed me as the memories of rape and brutal beatings overwhelmed me. I tried to move my arms, but a sharp pain shot through my body. One of my eyes was too swollen to shut, so I had to make do with one eye. Peering in the dark, I saw one of those monstrous shapes moving.

I shivered in a cold cell and pulled myself into a sitting position on the damp earthen floor.

I was locked in a nightmare, and there was no escape. Fear has been my constant companion in the last week. In the murky darkness of the prison, I craned my neck to hear the dull slap of flesh against flesh and the shrieks that echoed. They were doing it again.

The smell of blood and death overlaid the dank smell of decay. The shrieks had now been reduced to a whimper. I wished to die; it was preferable to the monster I had turned into. I had become a monster, just like them.

I was on my way home from my waitressing job when two men grabbed me an