Exposed and Vulnerable

'Marcella'

Marcella

The heavy silence of the bedroom had been my entire world for three suffocating days.

The assigned guard stood perfectly still in the corner, his unwavering gaze fixed on my face without a single word. Outside the heavy door, I occasionally caught the muffled thud of Dario’s boots whenever a maid dropped off a tray of untouched food. Neither of my captors ever acknowledged