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Chapter 8 (Behind the Rose Hedge)

Author: Graced
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I stayed in the bathroom long after I had cleaned myself, sitting on the floor, hugging my knees. The water in the sink had long stopped running, and the silence tortured me like a plague. I thought I would feel different. Changed. Maybe even stronger for doing it with Don. But all I felt was guilt.

Guilt that I had used Don’s body to try to erase Jay’s name from my mind. Guilt that it hadn’t worked.

Don had touched me. Taken me. And all I could think of was someone else.

I rose, wrapped a towel around myself, and walked back into the room. My phone blinked once. A message.

Nina: You okay? Do you want me to come over?

I didn’t reply. I just stared at the screen like it might give me the answer I Knew that I needed. She didn’t know about the restrictions. I only told her that the service in Don’s mansion was very bad so I could only speak to her when I was out. I did not know if she believed me.

Nina was on break from school and like any best friend, wanted to spend some time with her
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