I tried to think, to figure out how long I’d been here. How long after you stop taking the pill do you become fertile again? I had no idea, but I didn’t think I’d been there that long. A week, maybe? Two?

My thoughts were cut off when I was hit with the cold water from the hose again. He rinsed my hair and body thoroughly and then left me shivering in the corner, my teeth chattering, as he wound it back up and left it near the front door. Then he stepped inside the house and came right back out with a dingy white towel in his hands. He...