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 ...