The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 3

The living room went dead silent. My parents stared at me in shock.

Thaddeus recovered first. His expression hardened as he took off his jacket and wrapped it around

me.

“Scarlett! What’s wrong with you? This is your own house–why are you acting insane here? Nobody gonna hurt you. Just stop pretending! Weren’t you pushed Vivienne just now?”

I didn’t even hear him. I fought to get out of the jacket, kneeling and frantically trying to unbutton my clothes.

“Please, I’ll take it off. Don’t hit me. I’m begging you…please no…”

The day I was most helpless, the client became excited suddenly. He had my clothes sewn onto my

skin, forcing me to tear them off as fast as I could.

If I took too slowly, he’d punish me with barbed whips, burning cigarettes or a fire–blackened blade.

I was always hungry, barely slept, and had no strength to take it off.I had no choice, I used teeth. By

the time I got everything off, my body was covered in blood.

Even now, the scars never heal. They break open again and again.

When I kept struggling, my parents called Dr. Maxwell Hayes, the Blackwood family doctor. He gave

to calm me down.

is experiencing severe psychological trauma. She needs to see

immediately.”

with genuine concern in his eyes. “Her condition is critical. She needs to be hospitalized right

second, but when she noticed Vivienne

looked down at me, his voice dripping with

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at her–does she seem like someone who’d crack up? She openly pushed Vivienne right in front of us. How could she possibly

trauma?”

gonna drop this act? You worked as a waitress for two months and now

won’t make

at the ceiling blankly. Nothing he said registered with

close with a nasty look in her eyes.

your neck?” She yanked my collar

What about Thaddeus? You’re going to be married!

do that?”

curled up into a ball,

at my neck in

the bed and dragged me downstairs. He