This is pretty intense!!

"Come to me baby."

She did as she always did. She went.

He pulled her down on his lap and cuddled her in close, holding her as if she were a child. He stroked her hair over and over again before pushing her off his lap.

She looked at him in surprise.

"I told you never to look at me without me telling you to!"

She dropped her eyes to the floor.

"KNEEL!"

She knelt.

He stood up and his body jerked with angry movements as he stepped around her.

She could hear him as he paced back and forth while stopping still as he passed by where she knelt. He roared with anger and grabbed her by the hair dragging her along as she cried out; begging him to stop. He did.

He bent down over her seething.

"Shut the fuck up! You don't deserve to scream. You're nothing and nothing doesn't make a sound!"

He lent into the side of her head " Do you understand me?"

She lay as her body stopped with her legs curled as they had been to push her body closer to his pulling hand. She'd tried to ease the pain he caused by holding onto her hair.

She tried to nod but was unable as his hand still held her hair.

"DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAMD ME?"

"Yes."

He dropped her and the back of her head hit the floor with an excrutiating thud. He walked away from her as she lay dazed.

He came back.

She wanted to scream but held it in as the pain sliced across her stomach. Every slice harder than the last until her teeth broke through her lip and blood poured down the side of ber face and into her hair.

She heard him throw the whip against a wall in a burst of anger just seconds before he picked her up bridal style and walked to the bathroom. He placed her on the vanity and started to clean her face and mouth.

He sighed.

"Why? Why are you so stupid?"

Finally satisfied that she was completely clean after holding her head back to rise her hair he spoke again.

"Never! Never speak unless I tell you to."

He took a step back and smiled.

"Scream for me baby."

He reached out and quickly grabbed the skin on her stomach.

She screamed.

"Anna! Anna wake up! It's a dream Anna. It's not real!" Damon was panicking. Anna wouldn't wake up. Her dream held her under until she screamed.

"It's a dream Beany. Just a dream."

She looked at him with the eyes of a tormented soul.

"It happened."