Scars of Love,Flames of Betrayal
My ribs ached with every breath, my cheek throbbed where Robert's ring had cut me, and my hands still trembled from gripping that switchblade.
"Whiskey," I told Marcus, the bartender who'd seen me at my lowest points. "Double. And keep them coming."
He looked at the bruise blooming across my face but didn't comment. That's why I liked Marcus—he understood that sometimes people came here to drown, not to talk.
The first shot burned going down, but it was a good burn. The second shot went down smoother. By the third, the edges of my pain were starting to blur.
I was reaching for the fourth when a voice like warm honey interrupted my self-destruction.