My heart pounds sickly as Dad drags me to the car, radiating fury like a blazing furnace. I want to dissolve into the ground from shame and humiliation, avoiding his disappointed glare. But there's no escaping the reckoning to come.
The drive home is thick with tension so palpable it's suffocating. Dad grips the steering wheel tightly, jaw clenched as he tries to contain his rage. I huddle in the passenger seat, wishing I could evaporate.
"How could you, Cassie?" he finally explodes, voice shaking with anger. "How could you act like such a shameless hussy?"
Tears well hotly in my eyes again at the degrading words. "Dad, I'm so sorry, it's not what it looked like..."
"Don't you dare lie to me!" he cuts me off sharply. "I saw it with my own eyes - you pawing all over that horny little p
