Chapter twenty three: 'Choosing to obey or disobey has never felt more like choosing between a rock and a hard place.'
Exacting(adj): tryingly or relentlessly severe in making demands or requirements from one's skill, attention or resources.
It was exacting, emotionally taxing, to put it as an understatement for Lorraine to have to hold herself together and wait for a man with such a disreputable reputation as if all was normal and fine.
It was greatly demanding for a being of her persona to even be in there to begin with and she did not have reason to doubt that her fear has never exceeded the point it was at as she waited and waited, offering herself to a situation she knew she could not handle.
It felt like an eternity had passed since she heard the door close a
