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“Don’t stop,” Elisa said

“I’ hands cupped Elisa’s throat and squeezed gently at first

“Is it going to hurt?” The blurted words stumbled past Elisa’s lips before they could be censored

“Do you doubt me?”

“No No I just thought”

A soft chuckle rumbled “It’s okay that this is your first ti I’m the first”

Elisa searched his face with her ainst the tree

“I’ht into you and you’ll want all of it”

“I want to feel hot Sexy Like the other girls in college”

“You are so irls Most of them come from money and have had it all handed to them You’re smart Different”

“I want to be transformed” Elisa’s words rushed past her lips as if she sent a request to the heavens

“You will be” Again, silken words brushed over Elisa like a caress as the sun hung lower on the horizon, pulling with it the reht Shadows bathed the woods around the you’ve ever experienced before”

Strong fingers gripped tighter around Elisa’s neck, sending energy through both the seducer and the seduced Skin tingled Thrills grew as the pressure increased So dangerous So fun to enjoy such utter control

Elisa closed her eyes, releasing the reins held rip She wanted to be dominated She wanted to be owned Mind Body And spirit

When the pressure constricted her airway ever so slightly, the first flickers of doubt sparked Ah, there it was—the fear, which was farthan sex

“Feels good, doesn’t it, baby?” Grinning, the seducer squeezed harder, cutting off all air The white hot desire blurring Elisa’s thoughts cooled as quickly as ed into ice water Cos as she shook her head and raised her hands to the still tightening grip

“Stop,” she croaked

Pain and fear collided in Elisa, driving y and determination into her hold

“Stop” The word strained to be heard as she dug nails painted a bright purple into ribbons ofup powerful forearms

In these moments, with their bodies joined in such an intihts connected Elisa, who had so desperately wanted a challengethanmore than to break free and scurry back to the safety of her little house She wanted to breathe To live

Malice diry for fear, pain, and panic “Fear is part of the fun, baby Fear shows us we’re alive”

When Elisa’s breath caught in her throat and couldn’t pass to her lungs, she struggled with a renewed energy and then drew up her knee and drove it with a desperate force, into bone and sinew

Anger rocketed, stole breath and strength, and the deepening hold slackened “Fucking bitch!”

Oxygen rushing into her lungs, Elisa gobbled it up as she raised treers pressed to her bruised neck, she pushed away fro herself and sprinting toward the narrow path that cut through the thicket of woods

“You can’t leave yet, Elisa!”

Screa, she tripped over a root, bit her lip hard, and nearly tu with a wheeze, she hurried faster and faster down the path toward Percy Warner Park’s main road

“You won’t get away fro now under the light of the full moon, it was easy to follow Elisa’s panicked footsteps thundering down the path

“Wondering where the road is Elisa?”

Branches cracked and snapped, fusing with her cries and prayers “I know you’re wondering where we are in the park Let’s see, we drove up that o and parked in the lot before I kissed you on those lush lips and led you to the entrance of the woods Thirty led your skin as you gave ht just for me”

“Leave me alone! I don’t want to do this any in her breath as she raced faster

“You aren’t scared, are you? You knoould never hurt you This is supposed to be fun for the both of us I want you so bad, baby”

As night squeezed the last of twilight from the trail, tree branches and briars reached out like specters Their thoughts rejoined this tiine told them both the road was close A yelp escaped Elisa’s lips as she ran faster Sh

e was calculating the distance to the road Could she catch the attention of that driver? Would she be saved frohtmare that had ensnared her?

Elisa could flag down a car and then in a blink she would escape And the plans would be ruined That wouldn’t work at all

“Elisa!” Her name sounded as twisted as the dark bent branches “Elisa! Don’t be afraid of me I don’t want to hurt you! I want you, baby”

The woods grew silent, sing up the little faas, no doubt, clenching herher cries

Ahead, a fallen log lay across the path and to the right its large rotted stump was encircled by a pile of thick branches Had she burrowed those purple nails into the dirt, clawing and scraping and hoping the earth would s her up?