I looked out the tinted car window and saw that we were at a place I had never been to before. None of the landmarks that we passed ringed any bells and I didn’t have the guts to ask where we were, not after what I witnessed in the kitchen.
At Kieran's not-so-subtle remark, I got led to the guest bathroom upstairs. Even with the soap and warm water it was hard to scrub off the filth I felt. Hours of waiting for the worst possible outcome did things to a person. And my body was Tommy’s trophy case: the cuts he had given me were a stinging reminder that I could never be truly clean. My hands shook so much that the bar of soap slipped from my grasp several times while I bathed. Adriel was kind enough to lend me some of his clothes. I put them on quietly, struggling with the tracksuit bottoms
