There were lots of guests at the party, and Gabriella’s cheeks hurt from too much smiling. She had to pretend, to smile at everybody and exchange small talks with them, to say good things about Barrett and his father, to lie that they were great men and she avoided it as much as she could. God knows she tried but she knew whatever she told them, Barrett would definitely hear of, so she had to lie, to save her life.
She remembered how he had hurt her two days ago, because she had resisted having s*x with him, he had thrown her to the wall, and she sustained a bruise on her head which they had managed to cover up with a lot of antibiotics and make up, and of course her hair was styled to cover the scar. She bled that day, and although she could not remember much because she had been dazed
