Pennies by Pepper Winters EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Authors: Pepper Winters
- Language: English
- Genre: Romantic Suspense
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2 MB
- Price: Free
Tasmin
DEAR DIARY,
No, that didn’t sound right. Far too light-hearted for my tale.
Dear Universe,
Scratch that. Too grandiose.
To The Person Reading This.
Too vague.
To The Person I Wish Would Help Me.
That would get me in trouble. And I refused to sound weak. Not if
these words were the only thing a stranger would remember me by.
To…
Tapping the broken pencil against my temple, I did my best to focus.
For weeks, I’d been confined like a zoo animal being acclimatised to its
new cage. I’d been fed, washed, and given medical attention from my rough
arrival. I had a bed with sheets, a flushing toilet, and shampoo in the
shower. I had the basics that all human and nonhuman life required.
But I wasn’t living.
I was dying.
They just couldn’t see it.
Wait…I know.
Inspiration struck as I came up with the perfect name to address this
sad letter to. The title was the only right in this wrong, wrong new world.
To No One.
The moment I pressed those three words onto my parchment, I
couldn’t stop the memories unfolding. My left hand shook as I kept the
toilet tissue flat while my right flew, slowly transcribing my past.
I WAS EIGHTEEN when I died.
I remember that day better than any other in my short life. And I know
you’re rolling your eyes, saying it only happened three weeks ago, but
believe me, I will never forget it. I know some people say certain events
imprint on their psyche forever, and up until now, I haven’t had anything
stick in such a way. You see, No One, I guess you could’ve called me a brat.
Some might even say I deserve this. No, that’s a lie. No one would wish this
on their worst enemy. But the fact remains, only you know I’m not dead. I’m
alive and in this cell about to be sold. I’ve been hurt, touched, violated in
every sense but rape, and stripped of everything I used to be.
But to my mother? I’m dead. I died. Who knows if she’ll ever truly find
out what happened to me.
The scribbling of my pencil stopped. I sucked in a ragged breath,
trembling hard as I relived what I’d been through.
My will to stay breathing had vanished. It’d taken them a while to
break me, but they had. And now that they’d achieved their goal, I was
nothing more than cargo waiting for the transaction to line their pockets.
For days, all I’d had for entertainment were my chaotic thoughts, awful
memories, and overwhelming panic of what lay ahead. But that was before
I found the chewed up, snapped in half pencil beneath the bed.
The find had been better than food or freedom; better because my
traffickers minutely controlled both those things. I had no power to sway
the regimented arrival of breakfast and dinner nor the ability to halt the fact
I was being sold like meat to the highest bidder.
I had no control over being alone in a tiny room that had once been a
hotel suite before its premises were bought for more unsavoury stays.
For More Read Download This Book
EPUB