The Revenge of One Humiliated
I scrub, I scrub until my skin is red, raw, as if to tear off the stain, the smell, the memory of that night.
But it doesn't go away. The pain between my thighs is a constant reminder. The stain on the sheet is seared into my memory like a brand.
I thought I was at the bottom of the well after Raphaël's betrayal. I was wrong. He had only pushed me to the edge. That night, in that unknown bed, I hit rock bottom. A muddy, icy bottom, where nothing matters anymore. Where you are nothing anymore.
I collapse at the bottom of the bathtub, hot water streaming over my body that is no longer quite mine. And in the roar of the water, a new oath is forged, darker, more definitive than all the others. A