All Chapters of No saint for the sinner: Chapter 11

JadeI didn’t look back. The moment the lights flickered and the hallway dipped into darkness, I bolted. My feet slapped against the cold marble, breath tearing out of my chest in sharp bursts.I’d barely changed out of clothes when my phone pinged and I saw the news article that had been written about me. For a moment I couldn’t breathe. The words blurred, then sharpened, like they wanted to carve themselves into my skin. My stomach twisted violently, shame crawling up my throat like poison. I kept scrolling even though it hurt. A picture of me bent over and cleaning the table, flashed across the page. My expression was blank, eyes lowered. The comments were worse.“Rich boy gone pathetic.”“Salvatore keeps him like a dog.”“He’s not a lover—he’s a slave.”My pulse hammered so hard I felt dizzy. It wasn’t just humiliation, it was betrayal. Salvatore did it. He exposed me. He wanted the world to see what he had reduced me to. A choking pressure burned behind my eyes. The air fel