Never Coming Back
Language: en
The year I turned ten, my mother remarried, and we moved into the Hayes estate. My stepbrother, Asher Hayes, called me a parasite. Once, he pushed me down the stairs. He just stood there, his eyes glacial, watching me bleed on the floor. "Don't get it twisted. Your home-wrecker mother marrying my father doesn't make you family. I'll make sure you're gone. One way or another." He shredded my homework. He ruined my school skirts with permanent ink. The humiliation never stopped. No matter how hard I tried to please him, his cruelty was a constant. Then, in college, his best friend Finn…