Chapter 36: Come on-Don't Chicken Out!

Sia Thubron never dared to lift her head the entire meal. She made it through dinner wrapped in a grinding, horror-movie kind of dread. She had been starving, but she did not dare eat carelessly. Even when she drank water, she tested it with the tiniest sip first. Just in case she got set up. After two meals with Liam Hawksford, the first had left her feeling like her soul had been butchered clean out of her. The second had scared her witless. From then on, even if someone beat her to death,...