Chapter 5
That night, I filled the bathtub to the brim with scalding water, watching steam rise in thick clouds. I desperately wanted to wash away every trace of the past twenty–four hours, as if enough hot water could somehow cleanse my soul along with my skin.
But as I undressed in front of the bathroom mirror, the purple–blue marks scattered across my skin told their own story. Love bites on my neck, fingerprint bruises on my hips – each one a reminder I couldn’t erase. The bruises weren’t ready to fade, just like the memories.
Last night came flooding back uninvited – the burning heat of his skin against mine, his passionate breathing against my ear, the way he’d whispered my name in the dark. The ghost of his touch still lingered everywhere, like phantom hands tracing patterns across my body. The warmth of his chest pressed against my back, his fingers intertwined with mine – memories I wanted to forget but couldn’t
seem to shake.
sides of the sink until my knuckles turned white, trying to shake away these fragments of madness. These moments
lips had been. As if I could somehow erase what had become the most humiliating memory of my life. The physical pain felt almost good,
– my skin too sensitive, my body remembering touches I
years, since we got our first iPhones in middle school, there was no “goodnight” message. No inside joke about his calculus homework. No stupid TikTok he thought would make
Better this way.
to
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Seven Years of Love Seven Minutes of Truth Chapter 16 Janet was raised as a child. However, her life is not happy at all. Her adoptive mother dealt with silver with Janet. At Chapter 16 of the novel series Chapter 16, Janet was raised by an old maid and treated like a child. And Janet has to replace the biological daughter of the foster family with a rich man to have money to treat the maid's illness.
Seven Years of Love Seven Minutes of Truth Chapter 16 Ethan is the illegitimate child of a wealthy family, living a reckless life and making a living. He got married to fulfill his mother's last wish. However, on his wedding night, Ethan discovers his new wife is someone else.The Divorced Billionaire Heiress Chapter 16
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