• 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

  • experiencing severe psychological trauma. She needs to see a

  • immediately.”

  • paused with genuine concern in his eyes. “Her condition is critical.

  • a second, but when she noticed Vivienne tearing up,

  • down at me, his voice dripping with

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  • up? She openly

  • trauma?”

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

  • patient for sympathy. It won’t make us

  • ceiling blankly.

  • leaned in close with a

  • what’s on your neck?” She yanked my collar down, exposing the hickeys.

  • Thaddeus? You’re going to be married! How could you

  • do that?”

  • up into a ball, tears streaming down

  • stared at my neck in

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

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