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whatsoever. This woman had almost no bladder capacity and was in pain from needing to empty that
bladder  especially when she d had anything to drink.
Carolyn quickly lost track of the days she was held in that one room cabin, bound to the bed,
rarely allowed to get up. He did have the decency to move how her hands were bound fairly regularly, so
that her shoulders didn t get too sore. Sometimes they were bound at her sides, sometimes above her
head, and, of course, sometimes she was spread eagled, usually when he was planning on molesting her.
The only time she was ever allowed to be covered was when she started shivering, but he did
keep the cabin at a nice temperature for her. He walked around naked, too, and sometimes sweaty. He
was obviously not used to keeping the place at such a warm temperature. Sometimes he went outside
completely naked too. Carolyn wasn t at all sure why she was ever shocked by what he did any more. She
always thought he had done the most outrageous thing possible, and then he managed to top it.
Eventually, he began to leave her on occasion- he had taken enough time away from his traps, and
needed to check them. Not for long  he did the ones closes to the cabin first, until he figured he could
trust her not to leave right after he did once he left her loose, which he knew he was going to have to do,
eventually.
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Chapter Four
She gathered as much of her stuff as she could into one of the blankets on the bed, knotting it
loosely at the top like a On the first day that he did leave her loose in the house, with orders and supplies
to have made dinner by the time he got home, Carolyn did what she felt she had to do. She had to make
some sort of effort to escape. She couldn t just accept what had happened to her. All she wanted was to
get away from him  she hadn t thought much further than that. She didn t even know what direction to
travel in, but figured that Shepherdstown was roughly due East of where she was.
She hoped. hobo s bag. She d find a stick to carry it over her shoulder when she could. She was
smart enough not to have gotten into any trouble when he d taken short trips away, and now that he was
apparently going to be gone all day, she waited several hours, so that he wouldn t be anywhere around
when she made her exit into the forest that surrounded the small cabin.
But she was wrong. Nico had figured that she d had something up her sleeve, and had patiently
waited until she crossed the clearing and almost disappeared into the forest before beginning to follow
her. She didn t get very far on foot at all, and the snow, which had deepened over the weeks, was
practically impassible for someone as small as she.
He let her stumble and fall and make her way as best as she could though, knowing it would wear
her out and she d be less likely to give him trouble when he finally descended on her. When she finally
collapsed in the snow and didn t stir, he show shoed easily up to where she lay flat on her back, and then
she sprang up clumsily, his own knife from the hearth in her hand.
Nico was not happy. He wasn t mad that she d taken the knife  if he had been in her situation, he
would have done the same thing. He was angry with himself for having left it there to fall into the hands of
a woman who had no idea how to use it, and was much more likely to get herself hurt than to achieve her
goal of injuring him in any way.
Still, he was able to get it away from her without too much trouble, and without even so much as
nicking either one of them. Once he d disarmed her and put the knife away where she wouldn t be able to
get at it, he noted how cold she was and how badly she was shivering, and knew the first thing he needed
to do was get her back to the cabin.
Once there, he stripped her of all of her wet clothes and tucked her under the covers of the bed,
moving it to right in front of the fire he had roaring in a minute. Then he reached under the blankets and
furs and began to rub her feet and hands, which were the coldest parts of her, cursing himself for wanting
to teach her a well deserved lesson. He should have caught her as soon as she d exited the cabin and
taught her a lesson on her bottom, rather than putting her through this.
Carolyn slept for a long while, and when she awoke, he was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring
down at her. She sighed in defeat.  You have to let me go. This isn t right.
 I will never let you go. You d better come to grips with that quickly, woman. You are mine, and
you belong here with me. You could have died out there.
She turned her face away from him.  So much the better. I shouldn t be alive after  after what
you ve done to me.
He put a big paw over her stomach.  And if you re with child? Should you just give up and die
then, too? Kill your baby?
Shocked, she whipped her head back to pin him with her glare.  I m not with child.
 You don t know that, do you?
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 The bald truth was that she didn t.
 If that s what it takes to keep you here with me, then I will do everything I can to make you
pregnant. But in the mean time, he said, rising to move the heavy bed easily back up against the wall,
even with her in it, then binding her to it again, but on her stomach this time. Carolyn figured this was not
a good sign.  I m not going to trust you to behave while I m gone. It s going to take me longer this way,
but I m going to only do day trips out to my traps. Some of them will go unchecked, and we might be out
of food by the end of the winter. Once you re heavy with the bebe, you re not going to go anywhere. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]