Aria's POV
We didn't speak again.
By the time we got back to the house in his car, the rain had finally let up.
I got out of the car. I'd barely taken a few steps when I heard him behind me.
I stopped. "You staying here tonight?"
He rarely came back. Even fewer were the nights he actually stayed.
Besides... wasn't Claudia in the hospital? Didn't he have to go take care of her?
"It's none of your business where I stay." His voice was cold again. "What, you hiding something from me? Afraid I'll find out?"
The words brought last night flooding back.
Him. Jack. The violence.
And then what came after—the thing he hadn't finished...
The humiliation.
I looked away without a word and walked to my room without looking back.
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When I woke up the next morning, there was a box on my n
