Chapter 105

Finding my inner fire, sparked by her response, clawing out from inside me as his mouth ascends on my cleavage. He is used to getting what he wants and doesn’t take no for an answer, but I am not about to give in because I know I can’t win. It isn’t in me to give in that easily, even when my father abused me for years. He left me black and blue from the beatings because I wouldn’t yield to him. I am not about to yield to this power-crazy asshole with a hard-on, especially not when surrounded by people who might help me if I make a scene.

As Arrick taught me years before, I push with all my might and bring my knee up hard into his groin. Little memories of self-defense moves he tried to get me to remember. Kept hounding me to learn under his careful guidance, and right now, I wish I’d listened to him and taken more lessons. I get a twisted sense of satisfaction when I collide with something soft, then hard, with a force to hurt my limb in the process, and he lets me go, crumbli