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 calm me down.

severe psychological trauma. She

immediately.”

eyes. “Her condition is critical. She needs to be hospitalized

a second, but when she

looked down at me, his voice dripping

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Look at her–does she seem like someone who’d crack up? She openly pushed Vivienne

trauma?”

as a waitress for two months and now you’re suddenly crazy? You waste all your dignity just for acting like a

your new strategy. Playing the mental patient for sympathy. It won’t make us forget what you’v done to Vivienne. You still need apolagize

at the ceiling blankly. Nothing he said registered with me.

a nasty look in her

yanked my collar

Thaddeus? You’re going

do that?”

up into a ball, tears streaming down

at my neck in shock.

he grabbed me off the bed and dragged