TURN BACK THE TIME, BABE. BOOK 8. CHALLENGING THE DOORS OF TIME

THE HELL YOU'VE MADE

AMANDINE'S POV

- The icepick girl has just woken up.

I could taste some kind of metallic aftertaste between my teeth and my cheekbone burnt unbearably. Actually every part of my body was itching and I was going to scratch myself by instinct and then I realized my hands were tied up above my head by the wrists. With sort of a blurry sight I tried to sit up and found out my legs also were tied up by the ankles and spreaded wide open in a V-shape. I was lying stark naked over a narrow bed.

My first fierce instinct as anybody probably would, was covering my nakedness but that was not possible. As I was forced to lie still, the next thing I did was screaming from the top of my lungs asking for help. Then a figure stood out frontally some inches away from me. My eyeballs widened in amazement trying helplessly to find out who he was.

- Release me, please. I will give you as much money as you want, whatever you ask me for. I beg you...

- I'm not here to help you but watching you. If you go on screaming, I will have to cover your mouth so take it easy.

The voice sounded kinda deep and husky. My nostrils were flooded by the smell of cheap wine and cigarettes. Instantly I refrained my dry retching.

- Who are you? Are you the man who kidnapped me?

There was no answer at all and I went on asking. I should do something to calm down my nerves because I didn't want the panic took over me.

- Why am I lying in this position with all my clothes off?

- That's how Sally wanted. We're just fulfilling her orders.

- Where is Sally? Tell her to come here, she said we gotta talk.

- So you are telling me what to do, aren't you? Funny...

I guess every human being is different when it comes to face such a scary situation as I was living through at the moment. I had been surely pumped some kind of drug to sleep quite a long time and so getting me ready the best way to not put up a struggle or being forced to beat me. But actually I didn't know what this monster was planning. That's why I needed to meet her and I was telling her hellhound what to do, totally unaware of it. I was in shock. I was not sure how I was gonna to behave myself from now on. It was too terrifying and I rather not be carried away by the fear.

The room was practically dark and that gave me a little break at some extent. At least it seemed like the darkness gave some kind of strange privacy to my overexposed body in that unnatural and totally obscene position. It was not a secret at all which kind of monster Sally was and how easily she could sneak into your mind to look for your fears and insecurities. She knew quite well apparently the nature of my sickly timidness and how unbearable it would be seeing myself that vulnerable. Playing with people's weak spots was that dangerous psychopath's strong point, I guess.

As though her minion could read my mind, he drew back two small curtains. The light hit my still bruised face and I rolled my eyes with a faint distressed and awkward sigh. It felt like a slap right there. I closed my eyes instantly though I didn't feel relaxed enough to let my eyelids having a rest. I was too tense having that strange hired thug watching my open sex as much as he wanted.

- Can't you cover me up? This is simply disgusting and humilliating.

- Sally's orders are stricts and I value too much my life to disobey her.

- It's freezing here. I'm gonna catch a cold -I claimed in a desperate attempt to persuade him to bring something to cover me up. Though my shiverings were real, I wasn't overacting.