My Mother Sold Me to Pay Her Dealer, and the Man Who Took Me From Him Has a Use for Me novel · Chapter 11 of 24
Chapter 11: River Ice
I did not start shaking until we were in the elevator.
It began in my knees and went up, and by the third floor my teeth were chattering.
I stood against the back wall with my arms around myself and could not stop.
Valentine stood at the other side of the car and did not come near me.
His coat hung open, and there was blood on his cuff that was not his.
"Tell me what you need," he said.
"I don't know," I said.
"Then I'll stand here."
The doors opened on the fourth floor.
I walked down the hall to my room, and I heard him come behind me a few paces back, and I did not know whether I wanted him to.
At the door I turned around.
"Don't go," I said.
"I won't," he said.
"I don't want to be alone in there. And I don't want to be talked to."
"I won't say a word."
I opened the door, and he followed me in.
The room was dark, with the window full of the river.
The ice below was gray and cracked and lit from underneath by the lights of the far bank, and the snow on the ledge outside the glass was blue.
I stood in the middle of the floor and looked at it.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–6 of My Mother Sold Me to Pay Her Dealer, and the Man Who Took Me From Him Has a Use for Me are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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