This chapter contains depictions of domestic violence, verbal abuse, and emotional trauma. Reader discretion is advised.

CHAPTER 34

SABRINA’S POV

It wasn't the streak of light streaming onto my face through the small open space of my curtains that had me fluttering my lashes open. It was the incessant pinging of my phone instead.

I couldn't say I was having a relaxed or dreamless sleep anyway. Not after last night.

Feeling too weak and battered to raise myself properly from the ...