Lying on the bed, Camilla felt like the darkness had eyes; like she was a prey of some kind. Sheer terror of the unknown paralyzed her body. And then she saw a dark male figure standing in front of her.
Camilla wanted to scream. She instinctively opened her mouth to scream at the top of her lungs, but she could not make a sound. She just stared bluntly at the stranger. His figure was tall and menacing.
"Please... no," she said quietly, trying to move away from him as far as she could.
Like a terminator in the dark, he silently made a step towards her.
"What are you doing? I will scream..." she whispered in desperation.
The man seemed unstoppable. He acted like he was the one who decided her fate.
"I said no, you son of bitch! Let me go!"
She made clear to him that she was not giving up without a fight.
The man suddenly stopped like an entranced Cobra in front of the snake-charmer.
"No... You say?" he uttered coldly with his baritone voice. "It's your choice."
"What? Is this some kind of a game?" she was bewildered.
"You have thirty seconds to decide, hottie. Stay or leave."
"What?"
Sizing the chance, she quickly got up and ran towards the door as fast as she could. Behind the door she found the stairs that led to the first floor, so, wasting no time, she headed towards the front door. On the first floor she once again found herself amid darkness, when she heard the man's voice behind her back coming from the second floor.
"I will be waiting for you, baby!"
He followed his words with a chilling laugh that haunted the building for a couple of seconds.
She could not believe that he let her go. It was surreal. Just like that... She closed the front door behind her back and she was free. Or was she?
Once she was finally outside, Camilla did take a look around just to realize a moment later that it was a remote mansion in the middle of nowhere. Thankfully she had her purse and a mobile phone inside of it, so she quickly was able to geo locate herself. She ran towards the nearest road...
The nightmare was over once Camilla opened her eyes just to find herself all alone in her bed. It was all gone like a bad dream. However, that dream left a bad taste in her mouth. And Camilla felt a bit broken for some time after she woke up.
The problem was that Camilla hardly could remember how exactly she was kidnapped. She was in a bar talking to some random guy, and then - bang! - she's inside that mysterious mansion, helpless and scared... They probably mixed something in her drink. Camilla was hesitant to tell the police about this strange incident, as there was no evidence of violence, she was not raped, no sexual assault was involved, and she had no bruises on her body. Everybody would think that she's crazy, she thought.
She initially thought that the man who kidnapped her was Frank, her ex-husband whom she recently divorced. People could say about Frank all they wanted, but one thing everyone could say for sure - he had a good taste for women. Indeed, Camilla was a rare combination of looks, intelligence, and a warm, compassionate personality. She was a slim, hot blonde who was like a magnet for male eyes.
However, even for Frank it was too much. That man was clearly someone she never met before.
Since she was kidnapped, Camilla went through a roller-coaster of emotions. Despair, panic, confusion... And now it was time for anger. She kept mumbling "sick bastard" all day, even when her car arrived at the parking lot in front of her office where she worked as a data scientist.
On her way back home from work she decided she needed some break from these intrusive thoughts. So she went to the local mall to buy some sexy summer dress and a couple of heels. However, when she reached inside her purse for a credit card, she was struck by a surprise when she found a piece of paper there. The note contained an address, and it ended with the words: "Come find me."
Camilla arrived home late in the evening to find herself in a new, a somewhat upbeat, mood. Now it was time for a sheer curiosity.
She found herself feeling something rather strange. She could not explain it to herself. She never felt anything like that during her 32 years of life. It was as if she shared larger than life intimate secret with that man, something she could not tell anyone. Only two of them knew about it.
It was around midnight, and it was a long, endless night ahead of Camilla, she could not close her eyes without thinking about the man, his true identity, and what he did to her. The more she thought about him, the more she found him intriguing. She once again found herself the prisoner of anxious thoughts about the man and his sick games.
"Crazy bastard," she gently bit her lip while unbuttoning her silk robe. She said "no" to him because she was terrified, but now it was time for even more terrifying truth that she had to face - what if it was "yes"?