Avery My pulse beat against my rib, so loud that I could hear it. I rolled on the bed restlessly as sleep left my eyes because my mind kept drifting to the way Roman treated me a while ago. "What have I gotten myself into?" I muttered quietly as I facepalmed myself. Could I really keep up with this? But then, if I terminated the contract that meant that he would take back all he promised to do for me. 'To hell with whatever he promised me,' I thought to myself as his mean and humiliating words came to mind. Who the hell was he to really tell me what to do? I had never felt so ashamed of myself like I felt there. I felt so used and discarded, like I was a tool to cure his illness. I wiped away a tear that threatened to fall from my eyes. My mind drifted to the series of

