Four months ago this had been the most sacred of sacred places to me. An uncharted territory that promised only pleasure and happiness. I could still remember the feeling of excitement, the dread, the overwhelmingness of it all. It wasn't like that this time. It took everything I had to knock on the door. I had a key (she had given it to me last month) but this wasn't somewhere I was allowed to just walk into anymore. This was the portal to a hell I had created the previous night and now it was time for me to pay for my transgressions. She didn't answer immediately, and I wondered if she was still asleep. It was early still; it was only seven in the morning. The sounds of the lock being fumbled with. The barely audible opening of the door. My heart raced as it was pulled back, terrifi

