Romance: The Beginning of Loss - A Billionaire Romance Novel (Romance, Billionaire Romance, Life After Love Book 1) by Adams Nancy

Author:Adams, Nancy [Adams, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Claire lay in bed staring up at the ceiling. Moments ago, her phone had kept ringing and it hadn’t been until the third time that she had picked it up from the floor to see who was calling. It was Sam, and the moment she saw the name ‘John’ on the face, Claire had slammed her thumb down on the red. She was in no mood to talk to him.

The confrontation with her father earlier had sapped so much of her energy. It had been something that she had wanted with all her heart to avoid when she had initially agreed to come back home during her placement. For the past seven weeks she had done brilliantly, working evenings during the week so that her father was asleep in bed when she got home, as well as spending her weekends with Beth or at her grandparents’ house.

For the past nine years she’d been living with the terrible horror of what he did to her when she was only a little girl. The abuse had begun when she was ten and had ended when she turned thirteen. Claire had never understood why it had stopped so suddenly, but she gathered that her father feared that a teenager was far more likely to tell people if the abuse was still going on. He’d stopped and now wanted to act as if nothing had happened.

In fact, when she had first realized that the abuse was at an end, having not been visited by Joe for over six months before she felt safe enough to even consider that it had stopped, Claire too had wanted to pretend that it had never happened and continue with her life, basking in the sweetness of ignorance. But that didn’t stop the nightmares or the bed-wetting or the panic attacks that still stalked her even if her father didn’t. Claire was still haunted by the things that that man did to her, but was too afraid to tell anyone because she believed that she’d be accused of being a liar. Joe Prior was a local businessman owning five hardware stores, Priors, all throughout Colorado, two in Denver and three in the surrounding towns. Joe Prior was also seen by the local Republican party as a future candidate for them.

Claire feared that if she told anyone about things she believed happened to her when she was a little girl, they’d put it down to the fantasies of a child or the result of watching too much television dramas. And as each year passed, it became harder and harder for Claire to confess to anyone, until she began to wonder if she hadn’t just made it all up in her head; if it wasn’t some terrible nightmare that she had as a child mimicking a real memory.

But then when she was eighteen, Claire needed to use a laptop in the house as hers was broken. Every other laptop was unavailable except her father’s, who had forbidden anyone from using it.

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