All Chapters of DEAR EX, IT'S TOO LATE, I HAVE MOVED ON : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

AUBREEThe needle slid into my vein for the hundredth time this year. I have been counting; today made it the hundredth day. I am doing this. I didn't flinch even when the nurse pulled the syringe a little roughly.After six months of doing this twice a week, my body knew the routine. The cold sting and painful pull of blood leaving my veins. The dizziness that followed."You're doing great, Miss Hayes," Dr. Morrison, who stood two feet away watching the nurse, said. Dr. Morrison was the only one who called me by my last name. Everyone else in this mansion just called me "the donor."I watched the red liquid flow through the tube into the collection bag. This blood of mine was the only thing keeping Dominic Winter alive.Across the room, Dominic sat at his office desk. He hadn't looked up once since I walked in. His fingers moved across his laptop keyboard. He was probably making another million dollars while I sat here giving him my blood."How much longer?" I asked quietly.D

AUBREEI woke up the next morning feeling worse than yesterday.My arm ached where the needle had pierced my skin and a bruise was forming already. I can't count the scars on my arm and the pain I usually feel in my veins. I wish I could eat better to nourish my body but even proper food I can't. I lay in bed staring at the small basement window near the ceiling. Gray light filtered through the dirty glass. It's been raining for a while now, and I guess it will rain again. When I was younger, I loved dancing in the rain. When I tried it when I first came to the mansion, Dominic's mother had me punished and locked up in my room for a week. Since then, I could only enjoy the rain from my basement window. It's okay, I tell myself. Everything would be over soon. I gazed at the calendar and I smiled.Six months from now, I will be a free woman. I could date and be with anyone I wanted and the stupid infatuation I have with him will be gone as well. I forced myself to sit up and the