9
EDITH
Over the next few days I distanced myself from Jake and everyone else.
I spent many hours on the beach reading or shopping with Grace and Sven who followed us everywhere like a bodyguard. Only he had noticed the hickey on my neck that I had tried to hide with foundation or a scarf. Luckily he hadn't said a word, but his gaze had been enough to put me in awe.
I had managed to avoid everyone except Jake, as my gaze was drawn to his presence.
Despite the safe distance, my mind wouldn't stop taking me back to that morning when he had slammed me against the wall and kissed and sucked my neck until it hurt.
In those cases, I knew how to free myself from my attacker and knock him out, but there was something dark and painful about Jake that blocked me. I
