Stunning defiance

Eve's POV

"Come out!" Tom's voice echoed through the empty basement. A beam of light poured into the dark place.

I glanced up from my crouched position, staring up at the opened door. It was morning. I had stayed in the basement overnight and sadly, I wasn't dead. My hopes of a quick and easy death were dashed to pieces. I would pick death to this madness anytime. This wasn't living.  

I didn't think it was. 

"I said come out!" Tom hissed, peering through the door at me. "Do you intend to stay there all day?" 

I made no move to stand up and simply just stared at him. How could I have been so foolish to trust him? What had fooled me? His eyes? His looks? His art of cajoling? I had trusted Tom through it all. Even when he seemed shady, when my family rejected him, when he was a nobody. I had trusted him..

But now? I was done. I didn't want t