Realizing her face had gone pale, he caressed her cheek with the back of his fingers. "Oh, my

Zaad, did you get scared?" He tried to act oblivious to her plight.

She just moved her eyes down, on the verge of a panic attack. On and on, the flashbacks

came to her mind.

A whimper escaped her lips when he suddenly held her chin and bobbed her head up. A

painful knot formed in her throat, stretching the walls of her throat.

"Uh... no... I... please," she couldn't form a coherent sentence. Fear had ...