Chapter 5
Terrified and horrified, Rona ran through the house until she came to the room assigned to her as her bedroom. Once inside, she slammed the door. She noticed there was no lock on the bedroom door. Nor was there a lock on the bathroom door. There was nowhere she could hide from that horrible woman.
Breathlessly, Rona cowered in a comer of her bedroom, kneeling on the floor, hoping the room was too dark for her to be seen when the woman came in looking for her. She began fervently praying for the first time in years, hoping God would find a way out for her.
Time passed very slowly. Minutes dragged into hours and Rona realized Joan Sumner was not going to come looking for her. She didn't have to. There was nowhere Rona could go.
Finally Rona stood up, feeling the muscles in her legs painfully argue about her having knelt in so uncomfortable a position for such a long time. Shivering, the girl lay down on the bed and covered herself. And once again she fell into a light sleep.
She was awakened some hours later by Bob Manset coming into her room. It was already dark out, and at first she didn't recognize the young attorney. She started when he reached out and touched her shoulder, and he had to speak to reassure her.
"Oh," she murmured, calming down. "It's you. I didn't know who you might be. She's such a horrible person. How can you allow yourself to be subservient to her?"
"Actually," Manset told her, "she's not at all horrible. She can be quite nice, as long as she gets her way."
"If she'd have told you to rape me, last night, you would have?" Rona asked, clutching the bedcover tightly around her.
"Probably," Manset agreed. "But she would never allow me to rape you. She is the kind of woman who insists everyone enjoy what she enjoys. And since she enjoys sex, she insists you and I enjoy it. Now if I raped you, you wouldn't enjoy it, would you?"
"Do you know what she wanted me to do?" Rona asked.
"I know," Manset nodded. "I've done it to her hundreds of times, and to be truthful, I enjoy doing it."
"How can you enjoy touching a woman in such a dirty place with your mouth?" Rona wanted to know.