Chapter 57

• Gasping, I snapped my eyes open and removed my hands from my neck. It was that nightmare again. Everything precious to me was slipping away while Jude had his hands wrapped around my throat, strangling me to death. To eternity.
• I twisted to the side, happy I was still somehow able to live in my room without that… that man slipping under the covers uninvited. Had my sex-crazed night been too much for him, and he couldn’t approach me because of it? Whatever the case, I was grateful I got to spend my nights alone.
• My eyes shot to the door to confirm the key was there and was turned in the right direction. I had locked it. I started checking a few times every night, spinning the key and twisting it three times. I had learned my lesson. Old habits could make me die.