Chapter 5

"You bitch!" Molly spat, her voice dripping with venom.

She slapped me hard across the face, and the sting was instant, burning like fire.

Molly blew out a puff of smoke and, in a cruel act of revenge, pressed the glowing tip of her cigarette right into my thigh.

I cried out, the pain shooting through me like a bolt of lightning.

I gasped, cold sweat breaking out on my forehead as I stared in horror at the sizzling flesh on my thigh.

"Every time Preston touches you and sees that cigarette burn on your thigh, he'll remember today, and…