Morphine

"Before I can prepare myself, the whip lashes against my torso. The pain is indescribable. And it doesn't stop.
I scream out loud, but in vain.
If this is how I'm going to die, I wish it happens faster."

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Even nightmares exist for a reason.

Meira Esmund has been through what every twelve year old girl should never go through, kidnapped and brutally tortured, she wishes for death, a peace her kidnapper, Bansik refuses to give. After seven years, Meira finds it in herself to escape. Aged eighteen, she is finally reunited with her family. She thought it was a relief that would last forever.

It didn't.

Yet, even though she is safe in her family's arms, the past will always haunt her mind and soul forever, all she has to do is hold on. But when things start to look up, she starts to come tumbling down the hill again, just when she learned how to stand up again. In the process of finally tasting what freedom truly is, will she find more about the family she never had for years? More importantly, will she finally uncover the dark truth about her kidnapping? And maybe, just maybe, she'll finally stop rolling down that hill.
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#46 in Mystery / Thriller (7/8/16)

Text Copyright © 2014 Nymisha
Summary written by @DriveMeCrayCray