Evelyn
I continued to scream hoping that my voice would make someone come to my rescue, whoever Serena was speaking to on that phone, I needed them to hear me, needed them to know I was here, needed that one thread of sound to travel far enough to matter.
The call ended.
Serena turned from the phone slowly and looked at me with the particular stillness of a woman who had just run out of patience entirely, and then she crossed the room and hit me across the mouth with her fist.
My head snapped sideways and I felt the split at my lip immediately, warm and sharp, and before I could recover the second punch landed at my jaw and the chair rocked with the force of it.
"You stupid b***h," she hissed, grabbing my face with one hand and forcing me to look at her, "what were you trying to do, w
