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4 "from captivity to love" stars

*sigh*

Well, the fuck do I really know why I haven't read this sooner...

But 'never say never' and all that shit applies here...

So, I ll just dig in the dirt, i mean dark...😏

The story
What do you think happens next when a 'tall, dark & dangerously handsome man sets his eyes on a barely 18 year old girl?
Well, further on, we find out it was a close resemblance to a young girl he once new and she got killed. It's a memory of a fault and of a dangerous past.

Well, this man, sets his motion in action and abducts the girl of his interest.

Hmmm, why?

Because he fuckin can.

Julian Esguerra is a dangerous man by profession and otherwise and he always gets what he wants, including people. Nora's new life suddenly begins in captivity, on a private tropical island, as a sex interest of the man she found attractive physically but she doesn't approve or like any of his actions, obviously. But he's not inclined to 'break her', he wants to mould her, shape her, teach her to his peculiar sex ways where pain & pleasure meet and burst into a combustion.

So, regardless of her pleas for him to stop, he never does...yet Nora is finding herself sexually, emotionally in spite of the situation, in spite of her new caged life...cause she would never know anything different from this, from his touch, his presence, his obsession...

And she slowly gives in...

So I divorce my mind from the wrongness of it all and let myself simply feel. I can’t see anything with the blindfold, and I can’t put up much of a fight with my hands tied behind my back. I’m completely helpless—and there’s something peculiarly liberating in that. There’s no point in worrying, no point in thinking. I’m simply drifting in the darkness, high on post-massage endorphins.

Yeah, one of the biggest controversies out there...the Stockholm syndrome, the caving of one's personality to the imposed circumstances and situation without the chance of ever escaping, the only thing you can do, is accept it, own it and adjust to it and even learn to like it.

In spite of me, not really liking Julian, I couldn't deny the smooth yet treacherous feeling of self betrayal cause I found myself leaning towards his presence throughout the story #sorryNOTsorry

And I thought the portrayal of Nora's transformation from a victim to the willing captive was more than credible...