Rielle’s POVMy stepbrother had his hand around my throat the first time he called me a whore to my face.Not hard enough to bruise. Just hard enough that I felt the exact shape of every finger, the heat of his palm, the controlled strength that could have crushed my windpipe if he wanted to. His eyes dropped to my bare thighs, then climbed slowly back to my face with open, deliberate disgust. “Like mother, like daughter,” he said, voice low and cold. “I can smell it on you.”My mother had spent twenty years selling her body so we could survive. Now she wore a diamond the size of a grape and slept in a bed bigger than our old apartment, and her daughter still carried the shame. I should have shoved him off. I should have screamed. Instead I stood there with his hand on my throat and my pulse hammering against his thumb, and the worst part—the part that made my stomach twist with something that wasn’t fear—was how wet I already was. I could feel the dampness starting between my le
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