Jo sends her message to Elaine

Jo slumps against the door, breathless with frustrated longing. Bastian was gone...

(I need him...)

Jo should leave, run away, as fast as possible...

(I need him!)

Jo moaned again, her fingers moving towards her new sex but stopping as if pulled upon by threads.

"After the ceremony..."

Jo heard his voice in her mind and bit her lip hard. After... After...

After she had done what he wanted.

I don't want this...

In a daze, Jo dressed herself in her gown, sat down in front of the full length mirror - casually, sexilly, not at all betraying the desperation and conflict within her - and snapped a selfie.

With numb fingers, she began to type out her message to Elaine, pausing every other word as she fought to regain control of herself, to keep from following her man's commands...

"My dearest Elaine...

I'm sorry you had to come look for me.

I'm sorry that I didn't tell you who I was when you did find me.

This me. This... new me.

The woman you met trying on her wedding gown...

That was me. Your fiance."

It took effort, but Jo was able to get that far without bending the truth, without telling the lies that Bastian wanted her to write.

"But now..."

I need you to run away. Get help! Bastian did this to me! Find a way to change me back! Jo typed this... or that's what she thought she was typing. Instead what came out was:

"I need you to forgive me.

I've fallen in love... with Bastian."

What? No, no no ~!

"Bastian did this to me..."

Yes, back on track, just erase the last pa -

"He woke the woman inside me.

The woman who wants nothing more than to be his wife."

No ~!

"To care for his home.

To bear his children."

NO!

"Find a way to... forgive me. And wish me happiness in his arms."

Elaine, don't believe this ! I'm still a man! I still...

"I still love you, Elaine."

Yes! Just a little -

"As a sister."

No!

"Come to the wedding in an hour, Jo. I would be honored if you would bear witness to the start of my new life... not as your husband, but as Bastian's beautiful wife."

No no don't send this, don't make her think that I no no no -

Message sent.

"Noooo!" Jo sobs, the phone dropping from nerveless fingers.

It's over now. All over.

Except it wasn't.

Against her will, she picked up the phone once again...