Chapter 10

I struggled fiercely and cried for help. I was nearly swallowed by desperation.

“Enough already!” Finally, Dexter kicked Kyle aside.

I knew how he loathed anyone touching his stul!. He didn’t care about me, but since he had touched me, he considered as his cheapest of possessions.

I fell to the ground in a heap, hugging my clothes tightly around me.

Dexter seemed to lose his interest.

“You all get the hell out!” his said with an icy tone.

Kyle and the others knew to read the room. Seeing Dexter pissed off, they all scrambled up and left.

Now it was just me and him in the room.

He stood up, kicking me in disgust. “I heard you met with Ryder today. Are you that easy? Are you throwing yourself at him to make him sleep with you?”

Ryder had been my college senior who had been pursuing me for years, a genuinely good guy.

abroad. He told me he’d secured a spot for me to study abroad too. He wanted me to think it over, to give him an answer once I’d decided. Even if I didn’t

didn’t love me:

it, because at that moment, I was still fantasizing that maybe, after all these years, I could earn a sliver of love from

it was that night that pushed me into despair and made

did he touch

hugged myself

coffee table

out of my wits, I shook my head through tears.

not to see him again, got it?” He grabbed my hair, threatening me to

I nodded, but he wasn’t done

at me with disgust, and there was

told Hailey about marrying you. It was Hailey.

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frightened me. I desperately

my shirt had been torn open by Kyle, it now hung off my shoulders and exposed my bare skin. I was drenched,

he picked up a bottle from the table and poured it over my head. “You’re so filthy. Just

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