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

sedative to

trauma. She needs to

immediately.”

eyes. “Her condition is critical. She needs to

second, but when she noticed Vivienne tearing up, her

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

trauma?”

gonna drop this act? You worked as a waitress for two months and now you’re suddenly crazy? You waste all your dignity just for

this is your new strategy. Playing the mental patient for sympathy. It won’t make

stared at the ceiling blankly. Nothing he said registered

leaned in close with a

She yanked

boyfriend? What about Thaddeus? You’re going to be married! How could you

do that?”

curled up into a ball, tears streaming down my face.

at my neck in shock.

he swallowed his rage, he grabbed me off the bed and dragged me downstairs. He shoved me into