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What next?

What a mess!

Is he using protection?

What does the future hold?

I ale client He has belittled me to this point Once, he told me I was too much to resist, that he did this because he had to havelike a possession I’h I am a whore, and with every thrust inside of her, that is one less pound to o toward my debt

What a sick and twisted life I live What a giant clusterfuck of manipulation

Rage boils inside ht hits me

Willthis? He doesn’t know she’s not withinto the roo for me? Hoould I explain any of this to Marisa?

“Oh Ris Priss, Daddy is just having special time with a friendin Momma’s bed No worries”

Regardless of his lack of fatherly adoration, regardless of e, no child ever needs to walk in on one of their parents co adultery in their hohter’s head and it’s done, son!

Nohat the hell a to do?

Absently, I tap ranite countertops as I stand in the kitchen, trying to coer an option

The clicks of the stranger’s heels on the hardwood floor of the entryway let , at the same time I hear a cab honk its horn I suppose Monte drove her here and originally intended to drive her hooes without rhye and out front, I wouldn’t have a way of knowing he was inside when I returned with the groceries

He enters the kitchen and washes his hands, and I say nothing, nor do I ainst him with my back to his front, I freeze My stomach churns as he moves my hair off my shoulders and behind ainst my exposed skin

I want to hurl

“Did you like watching, Hailey? I liked you watching”