How, she still wasn’t sure. She’d gotten pregnant in spite of taking precautions. Intolerant of mistakes, David had blamed it all on her. So she’d left.
Somewhere down the road, he’d apparently had second thoughts. When he learned she planned to keep the baby, he came after her. She’d never seen how brutal he could be until he was.
She’d seen the signs before. But the level of illumination in a room didn’t matter when you had blinders on.
Now here she was, standing in the dark, listening to a perfect stranger—someone not even human—ask her to trust him enough to take off her clothes. And like a fool, she was going to.
She squatted down and reached out a tentative hand before her, searching. The surface of the water was barely six inches in front of her, and warm. He hadn’t lied about t
