Chapter 101

• SAMANTHA'S POV
• I stir and fumble to turn my body on the bed and drift back to enjoy my sleep, but there's something pressing me down. I wave my hands aimlessly in the air, trying to fight off the hand pressing me down to the floor, but I can't see a thing. A pillow is pressed into my head, suffocating out my breath. Is this how I'm going to die, in a room? With a pillow? In a room full of people, without anybody knowing. I force a throat-wrenching scream from my throat. I hope somebody can hear me; I hope they can.
• The pillow is thrown out of my face as I hear feet shuffling around the floor and running towards the window. I force my eyes to come open, and I see the female form jumping out of the window. A loud force hits the door to my room, forcing it open. I can hear indiscriminate murmurs outside the door... I try to drag the hem of the dress, but it slips off, and the woman jumps out of the window. I struggle to stand, but my weak feet protest any form of movement.