PIPER
Is his anger for me?
Definitely not. Don't be stupid.
"He got really possessive. He was convinced I must be cheating on him since… since I wasn't as good in bed anymore. I swore I wasn't cheating, but he didn't believe me. So when he suggested I get his name tattooed in a place where any man who touched me would see it…"
My chin wobbles. I take a deep breath to calm the emotion welling up inside of me.
"He fucking branded you," Timofey growls.
I nod, shuddering. "And I let him. I rushed out to do it because I thought it would help. I thought if I just did what he said, things would go back the way they were. But they didn't."
"He wouldn't have been happy until you were dead."
"No. No, it wasn't like that. Josh wasn't violent."
