Bonus Chapter! Sorry for seriously lagging on updates.

Chapter 20

"Adley wake up," the feel of Brea's touch jolts me awake. I'm laying in his bed, he's standing on the side. It's been like this since I admitted to him that I have feelings for him. He's let me sleep in his bed, although he really hasn't treated me differently at all he's at least made this pleasant change.

"What, what is it?" I ask him in a sleepy voice. I'm still a little tired.

"I thought you would enjoy a nice warm bath, get you cleaned up."

"Yeah, that sounds nice, can I have a couple more minutes though? I need my rest if we're gonna do it again."

"Who said anything about sex? I just wanted to treat my girl to a nice hot bath. No strings attached. If your not up for it you don't have to, I just thought you'd enjoy it that's all."

"No, I would enjoy one, do you already have it ready?"

"Yeah, all it needs now is our company."

"Oh, okay. I guess I'll get up then." He holds out his hand and helps me to a sitting position, I sit there for a minute to get my balance, then stand and allow him to lead me into his bathroom. He has transformed it into a beautiful escape from the life we live. The only light is the glow of candles. The bath smells of something sweet and when I look in the water I see that there are petals from a red flower in there.

"They're rose petals," Brea says when he catches me admiring them. They always make a bath more sweet smelling, not that you wouldn't already do that," he smirks.

His smile is contagious as I smile back at him. "They're pretty," I tell him. He nods in my direction, then steps forward and stands in front of me.

"Let me help you out of those clothes," he murmurs as his fingertips trace over my thighs, moving up to the T-shirt of his that I'm wearing.

He grips the tip of the end and ever so slowly slides it upwards, revealing inch by inch of my skin at a time until the shirt is over my head and cascading onto the floor.

"You have a beautiful body Adley, I could never get tired of looking at it," Brea says as he admires my nakedness. Before I would always want to hide it from him, or anyone for that matter, but now I don't mind him looking at me. I'm more confident with him than anyone.

"Say something Adley," says tucking a piece of hair behind my ear. His eyes search mine in an attempt to see what I'm thinking.

"I - I don't know what to say. This is all so nice, so over the top."

"I try to please you, now what do you say we get into the bath, here, let me help you." He takes my hand and I saunter over to the tub, placing my left foot into the water. It's warm, almost too warm, but it feels lovely. Sticking my other foot in I stand for a moment, getting used to the water before I sink down into it and then lean against the back wall of the tub. It feels so good, so cleansing. I close my eyes at the enjoyable feeling of the water sliding over me, sighing deeply. I could get used to this.

I remember that Brea is watching me, and I quickly open my eyes. He's standing there in his shirt and pants, still dressed. "Aren't you going to get in?"

"I was thinking about it, but you look so peaceful, are you sure you want me to?"

"Well yeah, why wouldn't I?"

"I don't know, you just looked so relaxed, I didn't want to jeopardize it."

"No, I want you in here with me, come on, the water's nice."

"Okay," he says, somewhat astonished that I would invite him in. He's still not used to me being completely comfortable with him.

As he takes his clothes off I stare at him the same way he looks at me, with admiration. He is toned, his rough skin is a pleasure to behold.

"Like what you see?" he asks.

"Always," I nod. It's hard to believe that this is us, that this is me. He has brought me so far from my old self that I don't know if I could ever go back. I know I could never go back to the life I used to live, not since meeting Brea. Not since he changed me.

He steps over and makes his way into the tub. I move forward to make room for him and he spreads his legs for me to sit between them. He wraps his arms around my chest and sinks further into the bath. "This does feel nice," he says, kissing behind my ear.

"Mmn it is," I moan softly. My head lolls to the side in order to give him easier access. He obliges and kisses my neck, alternating between licks, bites and pecks. It's a wonderful mixture and I find myself falling into sleep once again from the relaxation.

"How about a little soap?" Brea asks me, leaning over the side of the tub and retrieving a new bottle of soap, not his usual stuff that he uses, along with a sponge instead of a usual cloth.

"I thought I would indulge in something a little more high quality," he says squirting the soap between my breasts and rubbing it in with the sponge. It has the same smell that the flowers in the tub do, it's so beautiful, this is so beautiful.

"How is that Adley?" Brea asks. My eyes are closed, my mouth slightly open, half from being sleepy, half from Brea rubbing the soap on my breasts, mostly the second one.

"So good," I say in a hushed voice. I could lay in his arms for eternity if he would let me. He continues scrubbing me down with the soap and sponge, which is soft on my skin.

"Have you figured out a solution yet?" I ask. His sigh says that I've ruined the moment, but I need to know how much longer it's going to take. He can't just keep taking medication forever, and he can't keep "shooting blanks," eventually they are going to get suspicious.

"No, not yet, I have a few idea's, but all would be challenging or costly."

"Like what?"

"Well, I could buy you, which is expensive and would cost me about 5 months worth of my salary. I could take you on a trip with me and we could live somewhere else, which I would lose my job and have to find another, or I could say you ran away, which would cause them to search my entire house, and also they would send out a search warrant for you and hunt you down until they find you."

"How successful are they in finding someone they are searching for?" I ask him. I went a long time, my whole life before being caught. I don't know how I came to be outside of that place, I know my mother had somehow escaped, she raised me and then was caught and taken back when I was little. Then Elodie found me, took me in, she was a child too, but a few years older than me, more able to survive. She took care of me until I could take care of myself, then we took care of each other.

"I don't know, I would assume they are very successful, but there are women who escape every day, whether it be from the place itself or someones home, that's why they bind you as soon as they're done with you. They don't want you to get away, and if you do, your not going to be able to go long with those ties on your wrist. Handcuffs you can get out of, it's hard but you can. The plastic ties they use to cuff you are harder to get out of, they cut into you if you try and struggle, your not going anywhere.

"What if we combine two of those plans. You could look into houses somewhere else and buy it, look for new jobs there, then when you have everything set up, you can take me there and I can live there for a while and you can tell them that I ran off. They send a search warrant out, they search the house, they don't find me, and then when they are done wait a few weeks then come out and we can live together somewhere else."

Brea weighs the option in his head, "it's not a bad plan, it would take a long time to complete though. I would need to start looking at houses online and jobs, it would take months and in that time they're going to wonder why your not pregnant yet."

"Just tell them it hasn't happened yet. I'm sure they'll understand."

"Yeah, but they're only going to 'understand' for so long. We need another plan."

"This one works fine, I think we can pull it off, just tell them I'm not the most fertile thing, tell them we fuck day and night, I don't care what you tell them as long as I can stay here."

"I'll figure something out, now I need to go and look at some houses online, I need to look at new jobs and where I want to live."

"Okay you do that, what can I do?"

"Leave me to look. It's going to take a few weeks Adley so be patient with me, okay?"

"Okay," I say as Brea heads off to his office, which he still won't let me into. He is hiding something in there that he doesn't want me to see, that or I'm just being paranoid. It doesn't matter, he loves me and I love him, and we're going to make it work.