Intimate Enemies
Chapter One
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THIS WAS THE SCARY PLACE.
Lauren didn’t know another name for it, this menacing room, all thick stone walls and no windows and the smell of death hanging in the air.
She didn’t know where exactly it was, this place, this room. But the people here had peculiar clothing and glittering eyes. They were all men—big, angry men— who looked down and through her, as if she were not really here in the scary place but just her ghost was, and they had caught a glimpse of the Lauren-ghost hiding in the dark corners.
She wished that it were true, that she wasn’t really here. She wished it were just her ghost trapped here in the shadows, and not she herself.
They hated her. That was clear. They said her name in loud, jeering voices.They tossed in food to her carelessly, letting it slop on the floor. They gave her water that turned her stomach, that tasted like sweat.
There was no pallet to rest on. No furniture of any kind, in fact, although one of the walls ha ...
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