"But Knox left a deep mark on me; he cheated constantly, over and over, but the last straw was when—" I choked on the words, the memory hitting me like a wave crashing on the shore as I walked in and found him with my ex-best friend. " He cheated on me again, in our own house. "I laughed bitterly. "Or I guess I should just call it what it really was. My prison." Orion kept rubbing slow circles against my stomach the whole time, pressing another soft kiss there.
"Then he locked me up and took everything from me, and I knew right then I couldn't just stand still and let the fear win. So I ran. And that's how I ended up meeting you." I sniffed, and the room fell into total silence after that, nothing but the sound of my chest rising and falling. I still didn't understand why I'd been so scar
