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She wanted to stop the DVD--she’d seen enough--but she knew if her parents had driven all the way down here expecting her to watch it in its entirety, her telling theer, and she just wanted to be done with it So she said nothing, just kept her eyes on the screen and let the tears fall

The scenes became more violent He slapped Nao the man who needed kinbaku as beauty in his life to have to resort to ugliness

She was still crying after the DVD went dark Crying and heartsick and embarrassed

Her father cleared his throat

Please don’t say anything

"You see e’re concerned"

"You don’t understand" The instant she said it, she realized she should’ve kept her mouth shut

Her mother stomped forward "Thisso filthy and not be absolutely disgusted?"

She was disgusted, but not for the reasons they were

"Do you let hi you up like you’re his piece of property and let hiry face "It’s not like that"

She grabbed hold of A the tender flesh of her upper ared Amery forward Spittle flew from her mouth "You watched it How can you defend him? Especially when you knohat kind of a violent pervert he is That wo him to stop, and yet he still hit her He is a horrible, awful one into meltdown phase "We know this Ronin Black hasand do unspeakable things to you while you cry? But then he buys you pretty, expensive things and you just forgive hi with you?"

"Let go of irl You alere a willful child who needed discipline Maybe that’s why this unholy type of behavior appeals to you You think you deserve to get abused--"

"Shut up" Amery used a pressure point technique on her mother’s elbow to force her to release her arm

Her ht by his wife’s side "What did you do?"

"I told her to let go ofry red marks Guaranteed she’d have bruises tomorrow

"Isn’t that what you like? Or is it only when abank account does it to you that it’s acceptable?"

Hearing the crack of her hand across her , but not worth it in the long run