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NATALIE.

Knock knock.

The sound is so firm and forceful, I instinctively know it is Damien.

What does he want now?

“Come in,” I call as I get off from the window pane.

What? I already said I was going to leave.

I hurry over to the bed and drop into it, just in time as his head appears in the frame of the door before his whole body enters.

“Hi,” he says.

“Hello.”

“I was wondering how you were settling in?” he asks.

I give him a wry smirk before answering.

“As well as you can imagine. How do you think a person kept against their will and...