Dirty (A Damaged Romance Duet Book 1) by Michelle Horst

Author:Michelle Horst [Horst, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MA Horst
Published: 2017-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

I can’t sleep. With the lights off, I stand in front of the window staring into the dark night. I’m trying to process everything River told me earlier.

I try to make sense of the guilt I feel.

Movement in the garden catches my eye. River. I need to do something to make up for earlier. I’ve hurt people before, but every single one of them deserved it.

I watch her figure until she’s out of sight.

I’ve never hurt someone that hasn’t hurt me first, and it feels wrong. This time I was wrong.

I turn around and walk out of the room. Once outside, I walk in the direction I saw River last.

I check the chapel but she’s not there. I finally find her sitting on the stretch of sand by the river’s edge.

She draws her legs up, and rests her chin on her knees. She looks so small, sitting alone in the dark.

“I was fourteen,” she suddenly whispers. “I made the choice of having sex with one of the stable boys. I knew it would only be a matter of time before father sold me.”

I walk closer and then sit down next to her.

“My first time was awful and it hurt. We didn’t know what we were doing. But none of that mattered. I just wanted to get rid of my virginity.”

She starts to draw circles on the sand, while she stares out over the water.

“He found out. He was so angry. He made us have sex again. It was horrible. He stood there watching. I’ve never felt so degraded in my life, and then as the boy came, my father shot him in the back of the head. There was blood everywhere. I felt him die.”

She wipes tiredly over her eyes.

“Because of me that boy died.”

Her father betrayed her like David betrayed me. I now understand her a little better.

We both just sit and stare into the night. A lot has been said between us. Although, it feels like I’ve connected with her in some way, it doesn’t mean I trust her.

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