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that he loved me and, the moment he slept with me, he told me that he had to go away. I cried with him as he told me that he was joining the army. I didn’t realize until after that it was all a lie. He had used me, but Carl was different. He wasn’t like Isaac. Not one little bit.
    “I think that the demons are leaving you, my child.” Dad spoke through the camera and I nodded like an obedient child. I had to get away from here. Have my baby and, in time, I would come back for Mia. She was only fifteen months old, but in time she would forget about this life. Only think about the good things, like the love that Carl and I shared. I had to think of Carl as being real. I bet he was sick to the stomach, worried about me disappearing and, as the doors closed, I felt as if there was a ray of light shining above. Even though I knew it was only the kitchen light.
    “Come here, my child.”
    Really? He was calling me his child after he’d locked me in the cage?
    “You are being released from hell and, once you finish school, you will go to Kansas like you did once before.”
    That was the real name for the cage. Hell. When Dad talked about Hell, people thought about the one that they described in the Bible. They never knew that Dad had created his own version, the one that he used to lock me up in for a day or two as a child, but as I got older, when I fell pregnant that was the first time that I slept in there overnight.
    Dad said that abortions were a sin and that there was no turning back from murder. But kidnapping and holding someone against their own will apparently didn’t seem to be an issue.
    I’d hated him when he first put me in hell.
    I’d despised him even more when he told me with a smile on his face that everything that Isaac had ever told me was a lie. 
    And I abhorred him when he said that Mia would be brought up as his daughter and not mine.
    “One condition, Michelle.”
    I couldn’t talk. I felt so weak, my body was cramped and I didn’t know how long I’d been locked down there, but it felt like an eternity.
    “If I ever hear of you talking to that boy, you’ll go back to hell and next time I won’t even think of letting you out.”
    I nodded but I had my own way of dealing with the matter. He wouldn’t get a chance to put me in there, never ever again.
     

Chapter Eighteen
    Carl
     
    Faith sent me a text in the morning that Michelle was coming to school. It had been two weeks since I’d last seen her and so much had happened since then. I had gotten the college offers that I had wanted and there was nothing to stop us being together. I didn’t know if I could wait four years. The idea that her dad had been hurting her made me not want to wait. I spoke to my dad about it and he said that his sister in New York would look after Michelle if that was what Michelle really wanted, to get out of Stowe Peak.
    My mom was more worried about going against Father Roger. She talked about not being able to show her face in church again after what we’d done, but dad ignored her and I had a feeling that when I went to college I wouldn’t be the only one leaving town, so would he.
    Everything seemed perfect until lunch time. I couldn’t believe that, today of all days, I had no classes with Michelle. Once again, I couldn’t concentrate or think about what to do, only about protecting her. As soon as the lunch bell rang, I ran to the hall. I wasn’t expecting to see Michelle straight away, but as I waited, I saw both Harmony and Faith. Then I saw the girl behind them was dressed from head-to-toe in a cloak. I wondered what he had done to Michelle, and I couldn’t help but run over to her to rescue her from this madness.
    It needed to stop today. Her parents didn’t love her. Not the way that I did. No, this was a punishment for something they did in their past lives and they were taking it out on her. Was I the only one that saw the bags under her eyes and, as she took the hood off her head, I froze