Chapter Five
Claudia moved in and out of consciousness, fighting the darkness to become aware of her surroundings, only to fight awareness to escape the pain. Terrifying dreams that made no real sense haunted her, until everything she saw was a jumble of time and place. It was as if a voice in her head told her a story, a long history that made no sense.
Whenever she did manage to open her eyes, she’d see him, the man from the shower. Vague memories tickled her thoughts but they were so unreal she couldn’t believe that she’d actually had unprotected s*x with a complete stranger. So the incident became another thought entwined within her dreams.
Most of the time, the man would be pacing, like a wild tiger captured and caged in the zoo, endlessly trying to get past the invisible bars that
