a's
n New York when the seco
she played with the focused cruelty of someone wh
living room while I was dusting the mantel. The stain spread like a wound. Then she called fo
estions. She simply
still held the memory of the first b
r arms, then my back, then once across the side of my thigh when I instinctively tried to curl away from the nex
me, grabbed my chin with manicured fingers, and forc
ce. Remember that every single time you look in a mirror. Remember it when you put on that ugly u
made the next session worse. I
any other position hurt too much. She didn't make a joke this time. She just sat down beside me and pulled out another stolen
ing. "Adopted when she was twelve. Evelyn treats her like a real daughter and somehow still ma
washing machine without reall
else I can get with my record. Because I like watching rich people slowly lose their minds from the inside. And because I stole a pair of S
on felt foreign on my face after so m
. Red. Some already turning an ugly dark color at the edges where the leather had bitten deepest. I pressed a cold washcloth to them until my
et me sur
ndered if Julian Vance, with his cold blue eyes and his expensive coat, had any idea what hi
he would care
st of it carefully, then climbed into bed on my stomach and
kept swinging long afte
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