Chapter 6: Gag Her First
The air in the hallway is thick, heavy with the weight of his demand. The words hang between them, vibrating with a raw, brutal power. He watches her, his smile thin and cold, his eyes never leaving hers. Her face is a mask of disbelief, then dawning horror, then pure, unadulterated fury. Her body trembles, a fine tremor that shakes her from head to toe, but it's not fear he sees at first, but a desperate, furious defiance.
"No," she whispers, the word torn from her throat, a ragged, defiant sound. Her voice is barely audible, yet it rings with an impossible strength. "Never. You’re a monster."
She tries to fight it out of him. Her hands, balled into fists, rise instinctively, not to strike him, but to push him away, to create distance, to break the suffocating
