Trigger Warning.
I was stripped bare right there in the center of the church, and the brutal reality of it finally hit me. Augustino didn’t just want my body. That would be too simple, too merciful. He wanted to completely hollow me out until there was absolutely nothing left inside me but him. He wanted to scrape away every single piece of who I used to be.
The humiliation burned through my veins like acid, branding me forever. I clenched my fists, digging my fingernails so hard into my palms I thought they’d bleed, as I felt the heavy, terrifying weight of him shifting to position himself behind me.
“Look up,” Augustino suddenly chuckled.
The sound was dark, amused, and it sent a violent shiver straight down my spine. When I refused to move, keeping my eyes glued to the stone floor,
