ion table in the estate's private

r, completed the examination in stony silence. For five agonizing minutes, the rustle

drawing room, Chase was

taircase holding a signed medical r

is intact. There are zero signs of sexual trauma or rece

otch in his hand slipped, shattering on the I

scended the stairs behind Helen, butto

sisted. Then, a sickening, warped realization bloomed in his chest: She escaped the men, found out she was torn, and went t

tepped toward her, his tone shifting into sickly sweet patronization

im, feeling an overwhe

's sharp voice cu

, you created a vulnerability. You allowed yourself to be cornered, and you disa

the benevolent protector now that he

to the east salon. Two hours of standing posture in freezing wate

in an industrial metal basin filled to th

o tear the delicate tissue apart. Her teeth chattered violently, her lips turning a faint, translucent

the mansion suddenly sw

at Chase bought me

towers of luxury shopping bags. Her platinum blonde hair was curled into elab

doting adoration that Chloe had never once received in twent

quealed, throwing her arms around Eleanor

eyes widening in theatrical delight as she took in Chl

th petty malice. "Is the adopted sister being punished again? Mother, shouldn't she be

r, possessive hand onto the small of the true

hem-the cold tyrant, the treacherous fiancé, and the ignor

frost settling into her soul. Because every drop of