ANGEL
The chance to escape didn’t come.
This was because each time Daniel permitted me to leave the room, he always lurked like a shadow.
Watching my every move.
He prepared all the meals himself, never letting me near the stove or knives or anything that could be used as a weapon. There was simply no opportunity to reach those pills hidden in the couch.
I also hadn’t even seen the housekeeper he once mentioned.
I dismissed it as maybe she didn’t exist.
Time kept ticking, I didn’t even know how much of the three weeks was left because the days blurred together in an endless cycle of his body on mine, his voice in my ear, his hands reshaping me into whatever he wanted me to be.
All hope was starting to deflate from me like air from a punctured balloon.
Until this afternoon.
“I
