Chapter Twenty: Since when...?

His expression is terrifying, like an angry dog that has finally been set loose.

My leg instantly lifts to kick between his legs, but as if sensing what I intend to do, his hold on me loosens, and I instead stumble backwards. Before he can reach for me again, I turn to the kitchen door, the one I had just locked, but barely three steps in and his large hand circles my waist and lifts me from the ground.

“Let….”

My desperate cry is cut short as I kick my legs in the air to get him off me, but his hold on me doesn’t loosen until he walks me far from the door and back to the hallway.

The heat of his body is tremendous despite the rain that should be shivering him; before I can make sense of his actions, he plants my body back on the ground, spins me to face him and slams my back hard on the wall.

“Ack…”

My breathing is rugged like his.

I don’t know at what point this happened, but one sleeve of my flimsy night dress is cut and hanging low, so low that I can understand why his angry green