• 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 calm me down.

  • trauma.

  • immediately.”

  • “Her condition

  • second, but when she noticed Vivienne tearing up, her face hardened again.

  • at me, his voice

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  • It’s impossible. Look at her–does she seem like someone who’d crack up? She openly pushed Vivienne right in

  • trauma?”

  • You worked as a waitress for two months and now you’re suddenly crazy? You

  • for sympathy. It won’t make us forget what you’v

  • just stared at the ceiling blankly. Nothing he said

  • in close with a nasty

  • yanked my collar down, exposing the hickeys.

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

  • do that?”

  • ball, tears streaming down my face.

  • my neck in

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

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