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.

with Ryder because he was leaving for graduate school 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

Dexter didn’t love me: I knew he’d never

that maybe, after all these years, I could earn a sliver of love

that night that pushed me into despair

did he touch you?”

hugged myself

coffee table

wits, I shook my head through tears.

see him again, got it?” He grabbed my

wasn’t done

and

It was Hailey. She said there was

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look frightened me. I

been torn open by Kyle, it now hung off my shoulders and exposed my bare skin. I was drenched, and in that moment, I must have looked particularly filthy and .cheap.

table and poured it

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