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Don’t you dare feel for thatLook what he did to Joel

But he’d said he had a goddamn reputation to keep And that meant what exactly? That it was all for show?

Plus he said Joel was all kinds of fucked up Maybe it was a blessing in disguise?

Noas just grasping for an excuse

I’d tried calling Joel, but I had no luck getting through It was only onry as hell and couldn’t helphiht, he never responded I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but at his curt behaviour I was alh to demand for a "thank you" at the least for what I did I knew his injuries would have been sohiht to be had I stopped Borden Me How?

He said I was different What made me different exactly? My stomach twisted in shame when I felt the spike of pleasure run downtold I was different, and I hated ant

Violent

Angry

These were the qualities of Borden I had to focus on Not the way he treated entleness Or the way he looked at me… lustfully Or the fact that he had listened to e fits

Plus he demanded I work for him Nobody bloody told me what to do, dammit!

I stepped into the shower stall and hly washed ht off of me – andfor Borden Which was stupid Washing e the way I felt inside

When rily scrubbed ain in a vain effort to rid the feel of his touch onat his desk, Borden flipped through the latest file Hawke had supplied hie: Twenty three

Education: Diploh School Honour roll student, albeit long history of truancy

Faained custody after –

Borden’s eyes widened

Mother: Marianne Warne, death by suicide in the woo

Father: Gunned down by Marianne Warne sixteen years ago

Well, shit, not at all your typical New Raven sob story Yet the girl didn’t seeht

He flipped through es, content when he discovered her list of boyfriends was e tero and lasted four months

No criminal history

No sexually transo Had the occasional prescription for sleeping pills Long history of anxiety

And best of all, no dramas with anybody in her life