Chapter 16

Meadow’s POV

It all happened so fast. 

Juniper lunged at me, her fingers twisting into my hair so hard I cried out.

“You fucking bitch!” she screamed, dragging me backward by the roots of my scalp. “You think you can fucking touch me? Slap me like you’re better than me?”

“Let me go!” I yelled in return, twisting under her grip. I tried as much as possible to push her hands off, but with the way her nails dug into my scalp like claws, it was practically impossible. She was already drawing blood.

And I never actually stood a chance against her.

Juniper slammed me head-first into the wall.

My head hit the dry hard surface with a sickening thud and an intense, unbearable pain shot through my skull.

I gasped, stunned. The room tilted for a second.

“You were always the mistake,” she spat in my ear, pushing my head hard against the wall again. “Mum should’ve killed you when she had the chance.”

A hateful look