After the call with Harvey, Vicky’s head started to hurt again, and she went back to sleep.

The next time she woke up was when the sky had turned dark. The lights in the room were not turned on, so the room was pitch dark.

She fumbled to grab her phone, and after a while, her fingers came into contact with a human’s hand.

Anyone would be startled by that, and Vicky shrieked. “Ah!”

Click! The lights by the nightstand were switched on.

The faint light did not blind her and revealed a familiar face.

Tyler was staring at her with a shadow looming over his face.

Her eyes widened, and her heart threatened to stop beating.

For a moment, she seemed to have traveled back to that week-long hellish experience of the time when she was kidnapped by Tyler.

that she was corresponding with Monty in secret and that she was plotting an escape, so he chained her up in a dark room and continued to ask repeatedly

would sometimes be gentle, only to act extremely furious at the next moment. His mood shifted rapidly, and though he never raised his hand at her, she felt as though she was about to go insane and

under too much pressure and fear to consider why

as she recalled the memories, fear

you have a nightmare?” Tyler

forehead and pulled out a tissue to wipe it away for

could think, and she instinctively

froze in the air, and tension

and realized that she should not have flinched at his touch, so she

than a starless night were fixated on her when

and started sweating on her palms. “I…” Knowing that she could not look away, she held her gaze and said, “I dreamed of the time I got into

flickered for a split moment. “Why would you

know either.” Vicky wiped away her sweat. “Maybe it’s one of the memories that’s hardest to get rid

did you dream

“I can’t remember.”

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