It’s been a while, but I’ve decided to come back to Snippet Sunday/Weekend Writing Warrior. This is from my WIP Irrevocable.
Hands groped and pulled—rough against my skin and digging into muscle and bone. Too many hands. The bits of memory faded as I tried to retreat from the onslaught. My back pressed into a hard surface beneath me, and my nostrils filled with the smell of musk and damp stale air.
I had no idea where I was, or how I’d gotten there.
I kicked and gasped, trying to get back to the surface where reality lurked, shimmering in the distance, but just out of reach, like the sun on the surface of the water during a dive.
A hand latched onto my hair and held my head back. My eyelids were finally freed from the sticky muck that held me in semi-consciousness, and I opened them to find myself staring up into unfamiliar eyes.
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Sometimes when you can’t go back, the only way out is to descend into the darkness.
my Captor
When I woke in that place, I just wanted to survive. But survival came at a cost, for which they demanded my will and body.
my Master
With pain came acceptance. Fully-dependent on the man who claimed me, I learned to appreciate what I had-life and relative safety.
my Protector
I watched him spill blood and tend my injuries. With betrayal came a revelation.
The only way out was to bring them all down or die trying.
Warning: This isn’t your rainbows and love sonnets kind of romance. This story explores topics of abduction and slavery, and contains explicit scenes of dubious consent, graphic violence and sex
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I wonder who she is going to meet.
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Terrific, visceral description — intense!
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Such an intense scene. I wonder who’s there with her that she knows.
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Hey Skye, welcome back to WeWriWa! Great taut excerpt here, love your “voice”. I think everybody who reads this will be on the edge of their seat by the time they get to the end!
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Yikes! Fabulous show of a frightening situation. Well done.
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“I had no idea where I was, or how I’d gotten there.”
Good line.
Expert placement.
Well done!
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Wow, intense and frightening. Not my cup of tea, but well written snippet, Skye.
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Whoa. This is intense. And very well written, too.
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Sorry. Italics got away from me…
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Great snippet! The first sentence definitely caught my interest.
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Very vivid scene and so intense, as everyone has said, I realize, but that IS the word for it. Excellent excerpt, just wow!
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Love the description of waking up like emerging from water–it really grabs the attention. The phrase “too many hands” definitely made me wonder what that elusive memory was.
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Well, holy crap. This is awesome! Welcome back to the WWW, Skye! 🙂
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Well, you certainly caught my attention! Great eight.
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Very nice…. I’m interested to find out whose eyes those are.
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Very intense — I was drawn in and want to know more.
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