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“Tell me,” I demand in a harsher tone as I watch the first tears push their way through her closed eyes and roll over the blush of her cheeks.
“I believe I am not what society says is acceptable,” she half-yells and cries with frustration, yanking at the restraints.
“Fuck society. What do you believe?” I stand, stepping up to her.
“I believe I am not a size two, nor an eight or even a twelve.”
“And that bothers you?”
“I can no longer pursue my dreams because of my body. So yes, it bothers me.” She tries to hold a strong tongue.
“This the reason why you play with your food instead of consuming it?” She stays silent, her eyes flicking back and forth under her lids, but she doesn’t open them. “How long?”
“How long what?”
“You know exactly what I’m asking, Haven. Playing games with me will be met with repercussions.”
She takes a breath before answering. “Since I became a teenager and puberty wrecked my body.”
“Your brother get you professional help for that head of yours and your issues with food?”
“My brother was too caught up in the business. It was around the same time I was going through changes. Finn was the only one who noticed. He was there for me. He has always been there for me.Hehas never hurt me.”
Unlike you,is what she is insinuating.
“Your bodyguard,” I mutter under my breath, crushing my molars together, ready to murder him. She needs to watch the way she speaks about him. He’s already on thin ice. “What does that say about your family?”
“I love my family.”
“I’m sure you do. Though, only some of them deserve the purity of your love, Haven. Now, answer the question.”
“It says they were busy and didn’t have time for the youngest of the family.”
“Because their attention was on who?”
“Stop, Demetri. Please stop.”
“Did you just call me by my first name?”
“Damn feckin right, I did,” she screams, her accent laced with hate. “Why are you doing this?”
“Shame.”
“What is? That you’re an asshole. Why are you doing this? Who told you?” She throws her head back when I pinch her swollen nub. “Oh, God,” she screams.
“I warned you. Remember that.” I bring her up to the highest of highs only to let her fall without a soft landing. Her head hangs, her chin rests on her chest while she tries to catch her breath.
“Tell me, firefly. Does any of this have anything to do with an older sister you looked up to? A sister that treated you poorly. A sister you refuse to talk about. A sister who couldn’t keep her legs closed. A sister that got herself in trouble and was sent away after sleeping with a guy from a rival family in an alley behind a nightclub? The same sister who lied about her age to get into the club. She was then sent away, only to be murdered by the hands of one of your father’s enemies in retaliation. Is that why you’re still a virgin? Because you’re afraid you’ll end up like her?”
“No.”
“I think you’re lying, Haven.”
“I’m not. I watched my brother fuck all kinds of women. He would bring them home. Treat them like dirt. Use them and then throw them away within the hour.”
“Did you ever think that maybe it was an arrangement they had?”
“An arrangement doesn’t make a girl cry as she is walking out the door.”
