Trapped by my Ex’s Mafia Dad
“I was fifteen, Bella. Fifteen. And he looked right at me when he said, ‘You’ll be better off there.’ Then he left. Just like that. Never came back, never even checked if I was alive.”
Her voice cracked at the end. My stomach twisted, heat rushing to my face.
“Suzie made sure I didn’t forget it either,” Lena went on, her hands clenching in her lap. “Every slap, every shove, every cruel little game, it was her way of reminding me I wasn’t wanted. That I was bought, nothing more.”
She finally looked at me, tears in her eyes, but there was fire in them too.
“You think you’re drowning, Bella? I’ve been under so long, I don’t even remember what breathing feels like.”
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