Chapter 57

Charlotte took a deep breath. The conversation she'd had with Ken two days earlier over dinner was still going back and forth in her mind. He wasn't upset when she told him about Marco, but he made it clear that he still had feelings for her and would wait.

“I'm hurt, Ken. And I don't want to hurt you either.

'This Marco guy must be an imbecile, doesn't he?' Who does such a thing to a girl like you?

“He doesn't know about my past. I never told you.

- Even though. You don't treat a woman that way. I'm sorry to say, but he treated you like you were a whore. I would like to draw blood from him to teach him a lesson.

Charlotte laughed a little. Ken was strong and athletic, but he was clearly no match for Marco. The years had done him a lot of good and now the slightly skinny boy she'd once known was a real brute. If there was, for some reason of fate, a fight between them, it was clear that Ken would be knocked out. But she didn't have the heart to say it out loud and bre