Chapter: Chapter 4: The girl living in my houseDOMINICI stood up from the breakfast table and straightened my suit jacket. Aubree was still picking at her food, eating small bites like she was afraid the plate would disappear."Come to my office in an hour." My voice came out colder than I intended. I softened it a little. "We need to visit my family."She flinched. Why? I have never raised my hand to her.So why? "Yes, sir."That damn word again. I wasn't her boss and she wasn't my employee.I opened my mouth to tell her to stop calling me that. To just use my name. But the words stuck in my throat.What difference did it make? She was here because of a contract. No difference from an employee. I left the dining room without another word.When I got to my office, I barely had time to sit down before Marcus barged in. My secretary. Though calling him that felt wrong since he has been my friend since college.Marcus loved two things in life: expensive watches and my money. In that order.He dropped into the chair across from m
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Chapter: Chapter 3: Mr. Winters wants to see youAUBREEI woke up the next morning feeling worse than yesterday.My arm ached where the needle had pierced my skin and a bruise was forming already. I can't count the scars on my arm and the pain I usually feel in my veins. I wish I could eat better to nourish my body but even proper food I can't. I lay in bed staring at the small basement window near the ceiling. Gray light filtered through the dirty glass. It's been raining for a while now, and I guess it will rain again. When I was younger, I loved dancing in the rain. When I tried it when I first came to the mansion, Dominic's mother had me punished and locked up in my room for a week. Since then, I could only enjoy the rain from my basement window. It's okay, I tell myself. Everything would be over soon. I gazed at the calendar and I smiled.Six months from now, I will be a free woman. I could date and be with anyone I wanted and the stupid infatuation I have with him will be gone as well. I forced myself to sit up and the
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Chapter: Chapter 2: BetrayalAUBREEI walked back to my room cautiously, still holding the gauze against my arm where the needle had been.When I got to my room, I sat down too dizzy and was almost losing consciousness.They call this basement my room but I know even this wasn't mine. Nothing in this mansion was mine. Not the bed, not the clothes in the closet, not even the air I breathed.Everything belongs to him including me. I struggled to my feet and went to the calendar, I marked another day off.I staggered back to the bed and fell back as I thought back to three years ago, when all the madness began. [Three Years Earlier]I ran through the hospital halls, my heart pounding so hard I thought it would explode. I had eleven missed calls from my mother and I am too terrified to listen to them. God, please let nothing happen to Lily. I found them in the ICU waiting room. My mother was sobbing into my father's shoulder. Her makeup was ruined, as well as her mascara, which was running down her face. Vivian
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Chapter: Chapter 1: I will keep myself healthy.AUBREEThe needle slid into my vein for the hundredth time this year. I have been counting; today made it the hundredth day. I am doing this. I didn't flinch even when the nurse pulled the syringe a little roughly.After six months of doing this twice a week, my body knew the routine. The cold sting and painful pull of blood leaving my veins. The dizziness that followed."You're doing great, Miss Hayes," Dr. Morrison, who stood two feet away watching the nurse, said. Dr. Morrison was the only one who called me by my last name. Everyone else in this mansion just called me "the donor."I watched the red liquid flow through the tube into the collection bag. This blood of mine was the only thing keeping Dominic Winter alive.Across the room, Dominic sat at his office desk. He hadn't looked up once since I walked in. His fingers moved across his laptop keyboard. He was probably making another million dollars while I sat here giving him my blood."How much longer?" I asked quietly.D
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