Clara pov.

This time I arrived in a white dress with black lace and an open back. I stay laying waiting for Gabe to appear. I feel some heels on my feet. I want to get up, but my back hasn't healed yet.

"Love, you can sit up."

I hear him. I look where his voice is, and he is right behind me. So, if I sit up he will see what father did to me, and I don't want him to know. If he knows he'll kill father and ruin my brothers childhood.

"I am good laying down." I say smiling.

He appears in front of my face immediately. "What are you hiding of your back, love? A tattoo? A scar? A birthmark?"

"N-n-nothing." I say stuttering.

He grabs my arms and lifts me onto my feet. Then turns me around. He growls.

"Who did this? They're recent, they can't be less than 2 hours old." Seth remarks.

"I can't tell you who did this, if I do I will get punished worse than this. Last time I told someone they left me for dead. She moved a couple of days after, to stay away from him." oops I told my father's gender.

"It's a man doing this. How disrespectful to the male kind. No wonder you are shy around men. You still didn't tell me who."

"It's my step-father, but you can't kill or torture him. My half-brothers don't understand why he does the things he does. They also deserve a childhood with him. I didn't understand it at first, why he only punished me and not my siblings. Yesterday he told me, my mother had lied to me my whole life. I couldn't trust anything she said about my actual father. Guess I should have listened." While saying all that I start breaking down into tears, slowly making my way into a sitting position.

Seth had stepped back to let me explain. Now he is slowly stepping back towards me. He gets close enough to hug me. Whispering comforting words. I start calming down, feeling safe in his arms. I look into his eyes, and he is looking at my lips. I look at his lips, then look back at his eyes.

He leans his head closer. All of the sudden his lips come crashing down onto mine. My lips are tingling as we are kissing. He breaks away so we can breathe.

Everything starts going white.

"No no no no no nooooooooooo."

I wake up in my room.

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Sorry that it is shorter than normal, but I wanted to update today.

Thanks a bunch to everyone that reads this book. xoxoxoxo