Acts of Contrition

She will repent.

My life has never been easy.

After my father died when I was twelve, Mom couldn't cope and turned to drugs. With the drugs came the abusive boyfriends.

At eighteen, I finally escape from Hell, but the life I am forced to choose isn't caviar and champagne but rather torment and cheap whiskey. All I want is a break.

Until he shows up.

Thomas has seen me since I started working the streets, and he knows one thing: he must save me. But to do that, he has to break me.

Too bad he doesn't understand I have already been broken.