Chapter 9 Ava's POV

Lately i had been waking up exhausted,even when i went to bed early. I would wake up feeling like i hadn't slept in days.

Trying to get out of bed for work was almost impossible, which was strange for me because i was always a high energy kind of person. Few hours of sleep and i was always good to go. I was lost as to what was happening.

After a barrage of tests,even my doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me,the only recent change in my life was my boyfriend Marvin moving in and for the first time in my life,i was sharing a bed.

Marvin was the first love of my life and this was my first serious relationship. I didn't want to spoil things by making him sleep in the spare room.

I liked having Marvin around,he made a real fuss over me and he would bring me caramel tea every night before bed.

One night,i woke up with a sharp pain on my head with a bruise up the right side of hip. I jumped out of bed and nearly collapsed to the floor struggling to go to the bathroom.

I called for Marvin to come in and when he arrived,i showed him the big dark bruise on my hip. It seemed as though i had been assaulted in my sleep with a metal bar.

When i asked if i had fallen out of bed or something, Marvin had a weird expression on his face. It looked as though he felt guilty about something,but he dismissed my concern replying that it was probably nothing. That he didn't know.

I felt like something wasn't right,so i expressed my concerns to him, saying that i thought something was wrong with me. He coldly suggested that i should see a doctor and quickly left the bathroom.

After seeing my doctor,it was suggested that i should see someone who could rule anything nefarious. Marvin was still dismissive as we drove to the hospital. He suggested that i was probably just stressed from work but i thought to myself that people don't wake up from sleep with bruises from stress.

In the hospital,the doctor took my blood and ran several tests, including a stress test. When the result came back clear,i should have felt relieved but instead,i felt like i was losing my mind.

Something was definitely wrong with me. The doctor told me that he would prescribe me sedatives but when he looked at my blood work,it turned out i was already on Zolpidem,a powerful sedative.

I was dumb struck and confused because,i had never taken any sedatives before. The doctor reviewed my charts again and confirmed that i had indeed tested positive for Zolpidem.

That evening,i sat in bed,my mind racing with questions...how could this happen?, as i sat there Marvin walked in with my Caramel tea. When i was about to take a sip,i was struck by a chilling thought.

The realization that my boyfriend might be drugging me. It hit me like a ton of bricks and a wave of dread washed over me. I quickly dumped the content of the tea cup down the sink in the bathroom before jumping back into bed.

When marvin joined me back,he asked if the tea was hot enough for me and i replied that it was perfect as always. But inside i felt as if i was lying next to a complete stranger. I couldn't help but wonder if i had ever truly known him.

I laid there terrified he was doing unimaginable things to me while i slept. At some point,i must've drifted off to sleep. When i woke up, the room was a mess and Marvin was nowhere to be seen.

My body ached all over as if I'd been in a fight. I began to question what he was doing to me while i slept. I decided i had to go to the police,but i needed evidence.

I purchased a hidden camera and set it up in the bedroom aimed at the bed. The next morning,i woke up exhausted which unfortunately meant that something happened to me while I slept. But now,i had evidence on camera.

I opened my laptop to check the footage. For the first couple of hours, nothing happened. For a moment i hoped that i was just imagining things but then,i saw myself jolt from the bed. It felt like i was watching a horror movie as i crawled up the bedroom wall like a possessed demon.

I crawled up to the ceiling looking down on Marvin, ready to pounce on him. Marvin woke up and it was strange to watch him because he seemed prepared for what was happening, unfazed by it. He took a stick from under the bed as i pounced on him from above.

He spent the next hour fighting me off.i watched as he subdued me on the bed. He pulled out handcuffs and cuffed me to the bed. Looking at the marks on my wrists, everything began to make sense.

When Marvin came home from work that day,i ran to him and threw my arms around him asking why he hadn't told me what was happening every night.

Marvin shrugged his shoulders saying that he thought i knew and that the drugs he had been giving me made things easier for me.

When I asked him why he was still with me he replied,"my ex-girlfriend was a jealous psychopath, you're a walk in the park compared to her".