Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 10

I struggled fiercely and cried for help. I was nearly swallowed by desperation.

“Enough already!” Finally, Dexter kicked Kyle aside.

I knew how he loathed anyone touching his stul!. He didn’t care about me, but since he had touched me, he considered as his cheapest of possessions.

I fell to the ground in a heap, hugging my clothes tightly around me.

Dexter seemed to lose his interest.

“You all get the hell out!” his said with an icy tone.

Kyle and the others knew to read the room. Seeing Dexter pissed off, they all scrambled up and left.

Now it was just me and him in the room.

He stood up, kicking me in disgust. “I heard you met with Ryder today. Are you that easy? Are you throwing yourself at him to make him sleep with you?”

Ryder had been my college senior who had been pursuing me for years, a genuinely good guy.

abroad. He told me he’d secured a spot for me to study abroad too. He wanted me to think it over, to give him an answer once I’d decided. Even if I didn’t like him, it was okay, he said. He admired my

tempted. Dexter didn’t love me: I knew he’d never marry

that maybe, after all these years, I could earn

that pushed me into despair and made

did he touch

myself tighter, not answering.

kicked the coffee table in a

I shook my head through tears.

you that you’re not to see him again, got it?” He grabbed my hair, threatening me to stay away from

wasn’t done

with disgust, and there was disdain in his

told Hailey about marrying you. It was Hailey. She said there was an

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Chapter 10

frightened me. I desperately tried to

my bare skin. I was drenched, and in that moment, I must have looked particularly filthy and .cheap.

up a bottle from the table and poured it over my head. “You’re so filthy. Just wash yourself off.”

I kept telling myself that I owed him, and I’d pay off my