Chapter 71

~Nivea

After the shit show that went down, I couldn’t face Zane. I felt mortified that he even heard the things Ezekiel wanted from me. I felt so cheap, like a commodity for people to just use and just toss around. Like the only thing I was worth was how much people could pay to have me, just to sleep with me. 

I wanted to scream at everybody that I was freaking more than my body, the beauty, the curves! But they never paid attention to who I truly was, only to the physical things, which hurt me a lot. 

I felt like taking a knife to all those perverted bastards downstairs for all the degrading things they said to me, but I couldn't do that. I had my family to think of and protect. 

I was quietly nursing the bottle of champagne I stole and brought up with me, sipping directly from the bottle, the flute long forgotten as I got lost in my head. 

I stripped fully naked because I knew Thomas would want to have sex with me. This