Chapter 41

•Evangeline•

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I slammed open the bedroom door and took off all of my clothes before running to the bathroom. I didn't even care to flick the lights on as I moved closer to the bathtub.

I fill the bathtub, the water nearly overflowed as steam surged from the scalding water. I step inside, the hot water burned my skin but I didn't care. The burn felt like it was washing away their hands, their touch. I clenched my jaw to distract myself from the burn.

This is good. It will wash their hands off me. It will wash off their touch.

I squirt a good amount of body wash on the loofah and started to scrub. I scrubbed, and scrubbed, and scrubbed, the blistering water scorching my skin. Their laughing faces flashed before my eyes. I remembered the way their bodies smelled, their breath smelled. It just made me scrub more violently.

Their every single insult, their degrading remarks, and their dirty words resonated in my mind. I wanted to wash it all off, off my body, off my brain.

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