The Woman From Hell

Tory narrowed his eyes as his expression turned serious. "What do you know?"

"What we know are almost the same."

Theo pulled me up from the couch and gave Tory a long, meaningful look. "You should take your time and think about why I'd say that."

"Can't you just give it to me straight?"

"Nope." Theo raised a brow. "I want to see what you can come up with and if it'd be the same as mine."

Tory was speechless.

Surely, something was wrong with this man.

Theo then led me away. I still had a lot of questions, but I decided to just follow him obediently.

As we descended from the top floor of the cabin, we saw a man and a woman exchanging blows. I had initially thought it was a lovers' quarrel that got out of hand, but when I took a closer look, I realized that it was Anthony and his girlfriend.

"You bitch! I feed you and I pay for your shit. But you turned around and crawled into Tory Zimmerson's bed. I'm going to kill you."

yelling and swearing as he beat the

woman's swollen cheeks were a sign that she

had become disheveled in

tried to fight back in the beginning, but she eventually gave up. She just allowed herself to be beaten and yelled at. It seemed like it was not the first time Anthony had abused

addicts were prone to violence, especially when they were a scumbag like Anthony who would use violence on those who

You almost got my husband killed. I don't know when it'll happen but I just might change my mind and get you to pay with your life. This woman is the sole reason you're still alive right now. Otherwise, you'd have already ended up in a shark's stomach. You can't even keep yourself alive. Are you proud of having to rely

Anthony by surprise. He had already lost his temper. My words

you

grabbed his arm and

shock. He quickly apologized to me.

wrong. Scumbags like him only admitted their

looked at the woman and felt a sense of

for him. After all, a beautiful woman like her did not

said curtly, "Leave him. A scumbag

was probably pointless for me to advise her, but I still

woman looked up at me with a surprised look on her face. She did not think that I would stand up for her, never mind say something like that

no longer looked like the alluring