Chapter 19 : Evil woman

EMILY

My eyes are aching and burning when I strive to open them as my alarm goes off. I keep my eyes closed for a while. It's been years since I cried like this. It's easy to tolerate anything but such a kind of humiliation. Every day, Kane makes me realise my actual worth and it stings like nothing else. I'm convinced that I mean nothing to him now.

It was my stupidity that I started to fall for him again. I open my eyes to a new morning and look down, feeling the familiar weight on me. His head is placed on my breast, his hands wrapping around my eyes.

I take a moment to absorb the view with my hollow eyes. I used to wonder how someone can be obsessed or addicted to someone while hating them the most. Kane's unnatural addiction to me gave me some false hopes. He's near me because he's just addicted to having me, caging me and fucking me the way he wants.

So, how does it feel to be treated like an object, Emily?

I sarcastically laugh at myself. My damn self-esteem, on which I was p