I could see her standing there partly in shadow. She was wearing that green shirt which I always thought brought out the color in her eyes. I wanted so desperately to cry out to her and warn her, but my voice was stilled. I could not speak. Paralyzed, I sat in the high backed chair. Trapped, unable to look away, unable to speak.
Her head was pulled sharply back as through she were looking at the ceiling, but her eyes appeared to be closed. Then I saw why. A clawed hand was grasping her by her long chestnut hair and pulling her head back. Her wrists I could now see were bound together in front of her. One of my silk ties had been used to lash them together She was not struggling, but I could see the tear streaks on her face.
Then I could see it. Watching me. It was there in the darkness behind her looking over her right shoulder, laughing at me, though through the mirror there came no sound.
Reaching from behind her with the other claw, I could see it caress her beautiful throat and then reach down and begin to unfasten the buttons on her shirt. She was trembling, her eyes clenched tightly shut as one by one and slowly, it popped the buttons, it's hooked claw moving lower and lower, till with a last jerk it pulled the shirt open. She was wearing nothing underneath but a pair of panties. It released her hair and with both claws pulled her shirt wider and began to paw at my wife's beautiful breasts.
I could see it plainly now and clearly it could see me trapped in my chair watching, but I don't think my darling could see anything but her own reflection in that cursed mirror, her own reflection and that of the hideous thing that was making ready to rape her. It was tall maybe six and a half feet and covered in a coarse dark fur. Its eyes were slitted like a cats, but otherwise its features were more lupine, with a cruel mouth filled with jagged yellow teeth. It had two small horns on its head, like a gargoyle. It was sinewy and obviously quite strong as it turned my wife around to face him. Again the monsters eyes met mine as he positioned their bodies in profile to the mirror and to me. I was to miss nothing.