~Carmen POV~
The fear I was feeling in this moment was indescribable. To be mere inches from the monster that was the principal architect of all my nightmares, had me bordering on a state of madness. As I reconciled in my mind what was happening, my breathing halted and my body went numb, paralyzing me. I remembered that was my automatic response to what he would do to me, all those years ago. It wasn’t until he nuzzled my neck and I could feel his breath against my skin; did I snap out of it and it kick started my fight or flight response. I jumped up, out of the seat and backed away from him, not realizing that was the worse thing I could have done until I felt my back hit the far corner of the wall, next to the large two-way mirror. I was trapped and I had given him leverage to control
