Chapter 509

Sloane turned to look at him, meeting his clear, genuinely unknowing gaze.

She began, "It's nothing special, really. Just living under someone else's roof. My dad loved me, but my adoptive mother didn't like me, and Slade was always bullying me. When I got older, he started trying to take advantage of me. The worst time, he drugged me. I fought back with everything I had and barely escaped. That y