Samantha had frequently been waking up to nightmares over the last few weeks. She was in the middle of a field, or surrounded by trees, or would run b no matter what direction she ran she met with a tall metal fence. She'd look around with no way out and all she could hear in the distance was Seth calling for her, stalking her around his property. Then she would wake up in a cold sweat, thankfully she was alone most of those times.

Seth had noticed a change in her lately. At first he thought it was just her learning to be more obedient since she was quieter, but something just seemed off. He couldn't quite figure it out, but she never looked him in the eye anymore. When she spoke it was never more than a few word sentence. It seemed like she was hiding something, but he couldn't figure out what. There were no e-mails going to anyone, no phone calls that seemed out of place, the only money that was spent was for what it usually went to. However the closer it got to Thanksgiving, the more she seemed to open up. She was really excited to see her family. By the time they go to Colorado she was beaming. She was in love with the mountains and the cool crisp air. She never thought she would miss it this much.

Seth put on her wonderful sweet persona while he was with her family, just as he always was. Samantha didn't see that side of him much anymore. A least not for an extended period of time. They were having a nice time gathered around catching up. While her parents were talking with Seth, Samantha tried to get a few minutes alone with her sister. They ran up to a guest room upstairs and shut the door.

"Sarah, can I borrow your phone for a minute?" Samantha asked.

"Where's yours?" Her sister asked.

"I don't have it anymore and I have to make an important phone call. Please?"

Sarah pulled her phone out of her pocket and handed it to her sister.

"Thank you." Samantha walked across to the other side of room and dialed one of the few phone numbers she had memorized.

"Hello?"

"Hey Finn. It's Sam."

"Hey darlin. How are you? You finally replace that phone?"

"No. I'm at my parents house for Thanksgiving so I stole my sister's phone. I wanted to talk with you about something."

"What's up?"

"I, I need a favor." She stammered.

"Anything. What is it?"

Samantha sighed. "I really hate to ask this, but can I borrow some money? I'll pay you back as soon as I can. I just need a loan."

She really really hated to ask, but she needed to. She felt like she couldn't ask her parents without tons of questions. And she knew if she asked her sister she would just hound her about why couldn't she just borrow it from Seth. Finn would most likely believe her more.

"Oh. How much do you need?"

"Whatever extra you have. If you have anything you're willing to lend that is."

"Can I ask what it's for?"

"Christmas presents." She answered.

"Why ask me and not Seth?" He asked.

"It's for Seth. And I want it to be a surprise. If I ask him he'll figure it out." She lied.

"Ah. That makes sense. How much do you actually need?"

"I told you…" She replied.

"You never gave me a number." He pushed.

"In total I need a couple hundred I think. But I was going to see if I could borrow some from you and from my parents and I have some time to get it together." She explained rapidly.

"That's a lot of money Sam." Finn said to her as if he didn't completely believe her.

"I know." She replied sounding somewhat defeated.

"Sam, you're not into drugs or something are you?" Finn asked concerned.

"What? God no."

"Good. Because I couldn't supposed that kind of thing."

"I swear Finn, it's nothing like that."

"You know if you're in some kind of trouble you can come to me. If you're in some kind of debt or something."

"I know Finn. Thanks." She said interrupting him. He might not have realized it, but that's exactly what she was doing.

"So how are we doing this?" He asked. He realized she wanted him to drop it.

"Um, maybe if you could just buy one of those gift cards and put the money on that. Then you can mail it to my sister, I'll give you the address, then she can send it to me." Samantha answered.

"Why wouldn't I just send it to you?"

"Because that might look odd if I randomly get mail from you. But it wouldn't be weird getting it from her." Samantha explained.

Samantha finished up the conversation with Finn and gave him her sister's address. Once she was off the call, she handed the phone back to Sarah.

"So, are you going to tell me what that was all about?" Sarah asked.

"You'll see in time. But seriously, it is a surprise so please don't say anything to anyone, okay? And if Seth asks what we were talking about, tell him it was about a guy you're dating or something."

"Alright, alright." Sarah said giving in.

"Also, when you do finally get it, can you try and mail it to me so it gets there on a day where Seth is traveling. Just in case that happens to be the one day he decides to get the main." Samantha said trying to joke to make her sister feel better about the conversation she just heard.

Sarah was very intrigued by whatever it was her sister was planning. It wasn't like her to be secretive, especially with her, so she knew it had to be big.

The next morning, the alarm was going off very early. Samantha always got up early to help her mother prepare dinner and watch the parade with her family. She stretched out in the bed in the guest room and yawned. She could feel that the she was alone in the bed. But she could also feel like she was being stared at. Once her eyes adjusted she looked up and saw Seth standing in the room holding a cup of coffee staring at her.

"Morning beautiful." He said with a very large smile across his face.

"Good morning?" She said unsure of his unusually good mood so early.

"It's going to be a wonderful day." He said, then sipped some of his coffee and turned to leave the bedroom.

"Well that was weird." Samantha said to herself as she rubbed her face.

Moments after Seth left the room Sarah came running in and jumped onto Samantha on the bed screaming.

"What are you doing?" Samantha asked as her sister rolled off of her.

"Celebrating!" Sarah said excitedly.

Samantha laughed. "Are you that excited for turkey?"

"Seriously? You don't have to pretend! Seth came down and told us this morning. He told everyone this morning!" Sarah exclaimed as she grabbed her sister's hand.

Samantha looked and saw a beautiful diamond ring that was not on her finger when she went to sleep. It was probably only seconds, but it felt like she was staring at it for minutes.

"Congratulations!" Sarah said as she threw her arms around her sister. "Did this have anything to do with yesterday?"

"No." Samantha said in shock. "I had no idea this was coming." She answered looking then at the ring, then perked her head up when something Sarah said clicked into her head. "What do you mean he told everyone?"

Sarah grabbed her phone and opened Instagram. She scrolled through to find Seth's most recent post. It was a picture of Samantha, laying on her stomach, fast asleep in bed. Her arms were cuddled into the pillow in front of her and the ring was right in front. The room was still pretty dark, but the flash made the ring shine being the focal point of the picture. It was captioned: "#HappyThanksgiving This year I'm thankful for this woman right here, and all of the years to come"

She couldn't believe it. He was trapping her. She wanted to believe he was trying to be romantic and spontaneous, but deep down she knew he did what he did so she wouldn't get a chance to say no. And the whole word already knew. She really wanted to cry, but out of anger. He had spent the last few years trying to control and isolate her, and now he had her trapped. He now expected her to spend the rest of her life as his maid, chef, sex slave, and punching bag.

She went through the rest of the day as planned. She acted as happy and upbeat as she did the morning she arrived. She spent the day being lovey dovey towards Seth. She played the part of the excited fiance to her family. It took everything in her to pretend to be happy about the engagement and wedding planning to her family all day. She was even more upset now when they had to leave to go back home. She couldn't flip and feel how she felt on the inside, she still had to pretend to be happy with Seth. They were dropped off at the airport by her parents and for the first time in days, they were alone.

"You know, you are a really good cook." He said to her as they sat at the gate.

"Thank you." She replied.

"Did you have a nice time?"

"I really did. I've missed it there." She answered honestly.

"Good. Because you're not seeing them until the wedding."

"Bridal shower." She corrected, trying to make the conversation normal so he didn't see how upset and angry she was internally.

"What?"

"Usually shortly before the wedding there is a bridal shower. All the women get together, there's food, they give gifts and share well wishes for the bride and the new couple." She explained.

"Well whatever." He said then sunk down in his seat, trying to get comfortable until it's time to board the plane. "We have to go to my mom' when we get back. She wants to see us."