CHAPTER 58

          Billy gasped. Those three words had the same effect of a bucket filled with ice thrown in his face. Stephanie already told him that her stepbrother abused her, but he didn’t know that it happened more than once.

“Until that night, I was still a virgin...”

          Stephanie quickly wiped her tears and coughed to calm the tremble in her voice.

“After he was through with me, Grant ‘advised’ me to keep all this to myself. That if I should tell my father what happened, it will be my word against his. That he would tell everybody how I chased him around, how I… stalked him in order to get him in my bed. Then he laughed in my face, and left my room.”

          She got up from the couch and went to the window. People were walking down the street and Stephanie fe