Chapter 93

Raya

It was mortifying to accept the help of Mr. Sterling after vehemently rejecting it the other day, but there was nothing I could do.

I couldn't afford a lawyer, and he was genuinely reliable after everything I'd been through.

I thought about what he said as I stood in the room I was going to be staying in from now on: "I can't help falling for you."

Was he genuine?

I mean, I don't think he would have gone to all this trouble if he just wanted to get into my pants.

I sighed and sat down on the bed, drained and emotionally exhausted from the happenings around me, and my thoughts went back to the court paper I had been served.

Why was he suddenly doing this, though?

A way of torturing me and punishing me.

It wasn't as if he hadn't done worse for absolutely no reason back then, when we were dating.

I shut my eyes in an attempt to shut out the memory of things he had done to me then, and I opened them when Kyle walked in.

He was looking... I don't know, sad...

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