Valia awoke to the sounds of sizzling eggs cooking in the kitchen, and though when she rose she noticed a dress prepared for her, she found herself simply staring at the simple wool dress, her mind adrift to the happenings scheduled to transpire today.
She would be reunited with her husband, and no doubt he'd be eager to see her- whether that was a good or bad thing, she was uncertain, but fear laced her belly and tickled her veins coldly as she stood up from the bed and looked into the mirror at her disarray of golden curls. A hand lifted, touching one delicately that hung over her face as she examined a small bit of bruising on her cheek, and then to her throat. Peering down at the rest of her body, angered tears pricked her eyes and threatened to fall, but somehow they remained hanging there, unyielding to the gravity of the situation.
She then heard a distant rumble of thunder and shivered, recalling the time she had been raped out in the rain. And it had been done by an animal. Recalling the sensation, her toes curled, as did her stomach,a nd though her loins burned subtly, it was not an effect she was proud of out of her fears. There was a hunger in that animal, a domineering nature she adored, but it was the same thing she adored in her husband when they had made love so many years ago...
Before the very real fear of death set in- and what sex all meant to her and her future. Though it was selfish and vain, she never thought that she would ever fear sex in all of her known days! So it was unfortunate when, those men had taken her, ravaged her that, in some instances, she reveled in it.
But she needed it. All of it. She wanted to fall away into the nightmare and never be found. But yet...
Some grain of hope remain and she clung to it. And somehow she had come here. But what did this mean for her? For her future? For her marriage? For child? Surely Gabriel could not take a blind eye to this...
especially if she were to come out completely honest with him as her sister had suggested....
But what now? What was she to do now? And she was suddenly terrified of the very real idea to be reunited with her husband, and the moment she heard foot steps coming her way, she whirled around and the moment the door was flung open, she rushed past Trevian and threw open the front door, and ran off into the wilderness beside the place, tears finally falling and blinding her while she ran.