Chapter 53

Hands.

She felt scale-like palms caressing the sides of her face. She wanted to push the hands away, to run for her life, but she felt stuck. She screamed for help, wriggling helplessly against their hold. Her captor revealed its face then, yellow-rimmed eyes stared back at her and when he grinned, a rotten odour oozed from his mouth,

"You're mine now!"

Maya woke up with a startled scream, her heart pounded like crazy and her limbs felt too heavy. She placed a hand above her racing chest and tried to regulate her breathing. Blinking dazedly, she cocked her head at the sight of her reflection staring back at her.

Her brown curls were all over the place, mascara was streaked to the sides of her eyes and her lipstick was all smudged. Maya gasped in horror, slapping both hands against her face,

Was this what she looked like last night? No wonder Alex didn't want to fuck her! 

She wouldn't even fuck herself.

Speaking of the devil, Maya decid