DEAR EX, IT'S TOO LATE, I HAVE MOVED ON のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 7

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

AUBREEI made it back to the basement before the tears started falling. I pressed my back against the door and slid down until I was sitting on the floor, my knees pulled to my chest, my whole body shaking.I hated this. I hated myself for crying over a man who had never once looked at me as if I was a person. Never once, had he ever once defended me. He had to kiss my sister right in front of my eyes without flinching.Not even trying to save face or my emotions. And the worst part? The most humiliating, shameful part of all of this?I still felt something when he called my name. I am a fool. The biggest there is. If only he hadn't stolen my first kiss. If only he had not kissed me so passionately that night, none of all these emotions would have started.I pressed my palms against my eyes until I saw stars. What was wrong with me? Dominic had never made me a single promise. He had never whispered sweet nothings or held my hand or told me I mattered. He had never given me any reaso

~ AUBREE ~By the time the taxi pulled up outside my parents' house, I was tired of looking at the bank statements.The numbers hadn't changed during the ride here. My parents had received Dominic's money directly since the beginning of the contract.A separate sum for Lily's ongoing medical care, and a monthly payment described in the contract as "compensation for the donor's family."It had always struck me as a polite way of saying payment for the girl we purchased, but I had never said that out loud.The point was, my parents handled the finances. They deposited my portion into the account opened for me.They controlled the flow of my money.And now they had stolen even that.Fifty thousand dollars every month.Month after month.For two and a half years.There should have been over a million dollars sitting in that account waiting for me when the contract ended. Money to rent my own place. Money to go back to school. Money to start over somewhere nobody knew my name.Instead there