The other reason for her seeming indifference being that she hadn’t believed for one second I could be so pitifully weak I would just accept the s**t heaped upon me and do as I’d been ordered.
It’s only now, safe in the knowledge it’s not my intent to let anyone read this that I can bring myself to reveal the extent of my shame. And if, somehow, you have found my confession and even now scan a disgusted eye over my fall? Then at least the changed names ensure you’ll have no idea exactly who it is you’re reading about.
With my eyes lowered to the floor, numb and disoriented, I’d heard Fiona open the door and step inside.
Marvelling through my dislocation at my docility, I waited.
Nothing!
The door clicked shut behind her and I sensed her turn.
Still no reaction.
By now, I knew, thoug
