Chapter 11 Counterattack

• ROSIANNA
• I was burning up from the inside. Several seconds after Santos left, I stood there begging and pleading for relief from the intense feeling in me. When it finally got to my fogged head that he truly left, I forced myself away from the wall on trembling legs. As I walked, I felt the dampness in my panties. I staggered to my room straight to the cabinet and withdrew my pills. Recalling that I'd already taken contraceptives for the month, I pulled out the remaining two and threw the sexual hormone repressant into my mouth. Knowing it'd take some time to work, I took off my clothes and ran myself a cold shower. But I'd found out long ago that cold showers didn’t cut it at all.
• In the end, I settled for self-satisfaction, even though it was never enough, but at least it held me until I could go out of the house to hunt for a man.