The Alpha's Challenge

Lolly Suspense/Thriller

A new book following the life of a student named Molly, who has a troubled childhood and wants to move on with her life. How will she overcome her past and follow her dreams?
I lay awake.
I watched as the darkness around me played tricks on my eyes. The ceiling seemed to manipulate into tiny dancers, swaying across the pale paint. Their bodies diving between each other and their night never ending.
The only sound was the creek from the floorboards of the hallway. Slow and thoughtful movements. Movements with meaning and satanic ideas. I'd heard them before. Almost every night.
My lips lay slightly parted. Dry and chapped, aching for a cool liquid to quench their thirst. I took the silent breaths of my final moments of control. My chest slowly rising and falling, carefully not making a sound. Silence was a skills I had perfected.
My body frozen in time. My muscles ached from the tension and the overwhelming anxiety causing paralysis. Each floorboard creaked louder than the last, until a shadow emerged underneath the door. Two black shapes sat at the bottom. I knew what it meant.
My heart started beating so fast, it was almost audible. Deceiving me. I close my eyes and curled into a ball, pretending to be asleep. Maybe, just maybe...
...It wasn't enough. It never was.
The door handle creaked and slowly the once blackened room, filled with an orange glow. I was frozen in place, too scared to move. To scared to speak.
The booted footsteps shuffle forwards and the door clicks. We are surrounded by the shadows once more. But this time, its not the floorboard I hear, but a grunting breath fueled with alcohol and misery. Fueled with desperation and narcissistic will.
The bed dips and I hear the words...
"Its ok, I'm your dad. It's fine".

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