It had been two weeks since I had seen Eric. I expected he would have come back at some point to violate me some more, but he never did. The cuts from his chains were healing now, the bruising almost gone. I found myself rubbing my wrists idly quite often, lost in thought, trying to figure out how I could beat him, how I could get my Gift back.
Eric had said it never answered to me to begin with. If that were true, did that mean I never truly had a Gift? Why would the Goddess come to me and tell me otherwise? Perhaps the encounter in the forest, Lyn the faerie, all of it really had been a horrible nightmare. When I questioned Katlyn and Ashley about, they shook their heads in confusion, claiming we had never gone to the forest. I just couldn’t believe it though. It all felt too real.
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