Three paragraph challenge

A group I am in held a challenge to write something dark and enticing in no more than 3 paragraphs - this was my attempt..

Three Paragraph Challenge - Beyond The Door

Should I? No is the simple answer and yet here I am. I’m not this kind of woman. At least I didn’t think I was. But things change and have been changed by him. So here I am, outside his door, ready to offer all that I am and redirect my life.

Confidence has long been my shield but he strode straight past it, so easily dismissing my flimsy objections. He seized the moment, my attention, my breath and is spinning me back to an uncertain place I thought I’d outgrown. By the time he took my hand he was already sure he would be my future. That same hand is shaking now as I struggle for the composure I know I will need despite being pressed in a fist against my stockinged thigh.

‘Keep yourself together honey, you can do it.’ The words I breathe through gritted teeth are more plea than statement of intent for I am here, just as he demanded, just as he knew I would be. I am here. Now, with heart pounding and ankles fighting a constant battle against the height of my heels, I go to him. Mind, body and soul, I will soon belong to the man that expects me and waits beyond the door.