Enthralled

It was the biggest day of my life. 

I know most people say that about something joyous; a graduation, a wedding ceremony, the birth of their first child. My situation was a little different. 

Sure, it was my eighteenth birthday, but it was also the day that I was sold. 

Sold to a man with hair like a crown of gold and eyes blacker than the darkest pits of Hell. 

He bought me to own me, to control me, and to use me as a means to an end. 

I was his tool and his weapon.

And through it all, somehow, I also became his salvation.