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It wasn’t easy.

The floor was rough underneath her and Katie could feel the friction grazing her skin. But she was determined to do this. There was no way she was going to give up and accept her fate as Tommy’s personal cam-girl.

No way.

Katie was at the beginning of building a life for herself. There were too many good times ahead for her to give in and let someone else take that all away from her.

As she inched closer to the car, Katie spotted the exact point she would use to try and cute the rope around her wrists. The car’s exhaust was pretty much totally broken.

It was rusty.

Hanging half off the car.

But it had sharp edges.

Exactly the kind of edges that could cut through the rope.

‘Okay, let’s do this,’ Katie said, a determined steel in her voice that if it was an octave or two lower could have come out of Cage’s mouth. ‘Work methodically. Slowly but surely. I can do this!’

With that, Katie got herself in position and began to rub her wrists up and down against the exhaust pipe.

It was risky.

If Katie rubbed too hard or if she missed the rope, she could end up cutting herself badly. And given how rusty the exhaust pipe was, that could have incredibly dangerous consequences.

As much as Katie wanted to escape, she had to pace herself.

Slow and steady.

One wrong move and there could be trouble.

‘Nearly there, keep going,’ Katie whispered, still conscious that Tommy could walk in at any time.

Katie couldn’t spend any time worrying about the consequences of Tommy discovering her though. It was now or never. Katie simply had to press ahead and keep on going.

In fact, the whole situation kind of reminded her of her breakup with her old Daddy. The one who treated Katie so terribly.

When Katie had realized that she had to get out of that relationship, she felt scared. She felt afraid of how her ex would react to Katie saying she wanted to leave. It really hadn’t been a very good relationship at all.

And Katie even postponed leaving her former Daddy as she was so afraid of what might happen. Over and over. And each time she backed out of leaving, Katie just felt worse.

That was until one final day where her Daddy shared video footage of Katie with some of his other friends. It was the kind of X-Rated footage that really should stay between couples, unless otherwise agreed of course.

Katie felt heartbroken.

It had been so painful to experience.

But it gave her the final push she needed to leave.

And that was it. She had waited until her Daddy had gone to work and then simply packed up her stuff and left. Withoutsaying a word. Without wasting a single moment. Katie knew she had to get out of the apartment and never look back.

In some ways it was the hardest step she had ever taken.

But in other ways, it was the easiest.

And now, lying on the floor and desperately trying to cut her ties, Katie knew she had one option and one option only.

It was time to get out and never look back.

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