Chapter 18 IconicELSA“Lift your chin and swing your arms with full energy,” the martial arts instructor ordered, and I did as he instructed, punching the sandbag with so much intensity that it flew to the edge before coming back to me.“Good job, Miss Reed,” the man looked at me with a smile on his face. Kian had kept to his word. He said if I survived, I’d be free for a week. I haven’t seen or heard from him. I used that opportunity to enroll in a self-defense class at my university. I canceled my leave and came back to campus. I was alone; I had to be alone. Anyone who got close to me in any way was going to get hurt. I needed to learn how to protect myself.“That’s enough for today. I’ll see y’all in the next class.” The trainer’s voice echoed over the hall, and I took in a deep breath. Mentally, I was exhausted; physically, I wanted to die, commit suicide maybe.I tied my shoelace into a knot and exited the center. The walk back to my dorm was short. Opening the door, Rose, my
Chapter 19 Cat and MouseELSAHis eyes searched mine, but his hand was still fisted. I instantly turned backward to where Lucas sat; his attention was on his phone. He had no idea what was going on here. I immediately sprinted off, just like he ordered. Everywhere was crowded, and navigating outside the hall was hard. Curses filled the air as I kept bumping into different people, my heart beat against my chest with so much intensity. His voice was all over my head, it contaminated every remaining good part of me.𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞.I went for self-defense classes for this purpose but at this moment, everything I had learned disappeared from my head like it was never there. I ran outside to the parking lot. I fumbled the keys to the car Rose gave me to use for the date. My eyes looked profusely, my hands were shaking. The key fell off my hands; I immediately picked it up and clicked it into the car door. It opened, and I flew inside.I was about
Chapter 20 My Girl, My WorldELSA“Your choice, Frozen. What is it going to be?” His voice was so calming. He stood up from between my thighs and walked a step backward. His voice and tone contrast what he was—a demon, a beast, someone who has no business being alive and well.“How exactly do you sleep at night knowing all the traumatic things you’ve made people face? All the bad things you’ve done?”A sneer appeared at the corner of his cheeks before he undid his button, letting his trousers fall to the ground and revealing his already erect dick, which was pierced. “I’m far past the redemption stage, Kitten.” He stepped out of his trousers and walked between my thighs. “Stop trying to see if there’s a part of me that would feel remorse. I know nothing of that word, but I can assure you that every part of me belongs to you and wants you to feel like the woman you are.”“Fuck you.” My eyes stared directly into his, anger coursing through my veins. His smile only infuriated me further.
Chapter 21 ELSAI still had my hands wrapped over my body in a protective and shameful way. I pulled my leg to my chest on the bed filled with red roses that he had carried me to after carefully removing the knives. I couldn’t think straight; I had no idea what to do next. The door to the room I was in opened, and my body instantly did a little shake. He had folded the sleeve of his black shirt, revealing a cursive tattoo on his left arm with an initial ‘H’.I moved backward to the end of the bed, my arms still wrapped over my body, and my heart still beating against my chest with intensity. I felt pain all over my body, mostly from the sharp knives that pierced me.“I drew you a bath. Can you walk, or do you want me to carry you?” He asked, his eyes staring directly at me, like he felt sorry for me. How could he feel sorry after he caused this?“I want to be left alone. I can go to the bath tub myself.” I didn’t spare him a glance. He looked like he wanted to argue but turned backwar
Chapter 1My nightmareELSA“If fictional men were real, do you think they’d fuck like gods?” Gianna’s voice filled the car. I had to look at the driver as my cheeks turned red, he must think we are whores now. “Maybe their dicks would go into our clits so deep that we’d see the shape on our lower belly.”“Gianna!” I nudged her shoulder, and she scowled at me.“What? I just want to know.”“You need to stop fantasizing about fictional men, Gia. They’re not even real, and if they were, you certainly in hell wouldn’t want one like the types you read about in your life.”“You need to stop breathing air; I mean, it’s not even real, and we’d die anyway. Yours can just be some years earlier, I’ll join you when I’m old.”“You’re sick.” I rolled my eyes at her and stared out the window of the moving vehicle, the houses, and trees I knew I would miss when I left for college. I didn't exactly feel sad about moving out to college the next week, but this was the town I had spent all my high school
Chapter 2ButterflyELSAI made it! It felt lonely without Gianna, but I was glad I made it either way, staring at the big building with the name Kingston’s University boldly plastered on the exterior. Students of different sizes, colors, and races moved around, some in pairs and some alone.“Will you be fine, Honey?” Aunt Tiana asked, dragging my traveling bag to meet up with me, “You know where to come whenever you get homesick.”“I’ll be fine. You worry too much, and you’d get grey hairs faster that way.” I laughed at her as she grabbed my hand and gave it a little squeeze. I was finally here, in Washington DC, far away from Ohio and far away from the stalker.“Alright then. In you go, I still have to drop off James at high school.” She fumbled with her keys before turning away. Aunt Tiana lived here; she grew up in DC, and that made it more comfortable for me to come here.New school, new decisions, fresh start, new life.I held onto the bag handles and dragged both of them along
Chapter 3Little KittenELSAI felt his face and lips go to my ear, his breath across my neck. “Hello, Little Kitten. We meet again.”My entire body froze for a second. That name – my head did a spin back. The only person who called me that, the stalker from Ohio.I pushed at the figure behind me and stepped on the toes so hard that the person released me for a bit, giving me a chance to run. I turned, and my legs began working faster than they had ever done, running through the hallway filled with locker rooms.“He... help!” I screamed on top of my voice. I couldn’t see him again. I looked back; he wasn’t standing there, he wasn’t chasing me either.“Do you know how long I’ve fantasized about how good you’d look when you are running away from me with so much fear in your eyes, Kitten?”I couldn’t exactly pinpoint where the voice was coming from, but I could hear it everywhere, echoing through the empty hallway like he was some demon from hell. I felt instant happiness and hope immedi
Chapter 4UNKNOWN“What was that you said again?” I asked, picking up the blood-stained towel on the cabinet and wiping off the blood on the knife with it before turning backward to face the half-dying man tied to the chair of nails. Every movement he made caused him pain and made the nails shift in his body.“I’m sorry, we didn’t know you were in this city; we would have—“ I hit the sharp blade on the handle of his chair where his fingers were separated, a screeching scream came from him as he closed his eyes trying to endure the pain. His pinky finger was on the ground, cut out from his hand and making it four fingers left. He was missing his left ear and one pinky finger, both on the ground.“You’re not sorry for trying to sex traffic and sell little kids going to school or young thirteen-year-old girls that still have their whole life ahead of them.” I walked around the chair, trailing the blade on the wall as I passed. “You’re sorry for getting caught by me.”“Who are you to judg