Chapter Fourteen

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I wake up with pain wracking my body. A splitting headache and unsettling stomach to excruciating pain in joints that hold my upper body to my thighs.

I cannot stand up straight, holding anything. My head is killing me, and I want to go to the toilet so badly. My stomach wants to flash everything now.

It is as if my body no longer belongs to me, and I have accidentally walked into a fifty-year-old body who did not bother keeping her body fit.

I forced my eyes open because I needed to get out of bed. The sight before me kills me. A huge bed. Not my bed. Where am I? Messed up a room. From sheets to pillows.

And then, touching my body, I notice. I am naked, completely bare. I stand up from the bed. Searching my body and I am strained with sticky strains of blood all over my thighs.

My torn clothes are all over the room. It is not just my clothes lying on the floor. But the clothes of a man.

I jerked in shock. On the huge sofa sleeps the young man. With his sleeping position,