Chapter: 2258

But she was wrong.

Things didn't turn out the way Averie expected.

In the middle of summer, she wore long sleeves and pants to hide her bruises. Each day after school, she'd clean up the apartment and cook dinner, all before Sebastian got home. She also studied hard to be top of her class.

She really believed that if she did all this, Sebastian would stop hitting her.

Sebastian had been idling away for two weeks and finally decided to look for a job. But his record wasn't clean, with a prison stint and a DUI, so no one wanted to hire him.