I WILL GET YOU OUT OF MY MIND

TERESA   I was motionless, stunned, petrified. Bash and Liam’s requests threw me into the deepest abyss endlessly, and I fell incessantly. I tried clinging to the edges, but my hands seemed numb and I slipped deeper and deeper. I was boiling with anger, helplessness, shame ... my efforts to stay rational were in vain.      I simply crawled on my elbows in horror, as if I wanted to get to a certain place where my being would be sheltered. My grimaces had turned into hateful frowns, as if asking for an explanation that was no longer coming. What was to be explained? That he used me so far for my miraculous blood? That without me, that serum was useless? And where had his promises gone? The way he looked at me, the way he spoke to me, or the way he possessed me. Were they also outright lies? Have they meticulously thought out strategies based on his deviant intentions? Suddenly, it was as if my body was empty inside. It seemed to wander in the mind’s darkness and became so confused that i