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Bear held me while I cried, then set me up in my own room.

A few days later Bear came in and let me know that they now owned the strip club. I knew he had killed the owner for what he did to me.

I was now a stripper there and a club girl here. I had money and protection, but that was it. I was dead inside.

I never wanted this life, but it was what I was handed. I never got out of this town and made something of myself. From the moment I was born, my fate had been decided.

Another trailer trash girl to dance for the MC and be at their beck and call. There was no escaping this. I did what I needed to do to survive this life.

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AS I FINISH TELLINGGoose what happened, I look up to see his green eyes turning dark. I can see that billowing dark cloud stirring in his soul.

Goose is going to destroy anybody he can get his hands on who has hurt me. And I have no problems with it.

“Angel...”

“Don’t say sorry. I did what I had to do to survive. To protect those who loved me.”

Goose pulls me into him, and I feel a wave of relief. I was so scared of his reaction, but this was more than I could have imagined.

“Bambi. I know you don’t want to hear sorry, but fuck. I’m so goddamn sorry. I should have pushed. I should have listened. I shouldn’t have been so fucking stubborn. I was so worried about my broken heart I didn’t think of yours. Of what you could have been going through. I think I was just in so much shock I never thought to look more into the situation.”

“It’s okay. We were young. Who would have thought my father would have sold me? Nobody can predict the future.”

Goose holds me tight and I feel a wet drop fall on my head. I look up to see his eyes filled with tears.

“Please don’t cry. It’s all over now.”

He holds me tight as we both shed tears for our past and everything we could have avoided.

Goose holds me through the night as more tears fall from my eyes. I cry and cry while Goose tries to console me. He helps me shower and then tucks me back in bed as more tears fall and more hurt is purged from my body now that Goose knows the truth.

It feels like a weight has been lifted off my chest now that he knows what happened. It was horrible and I know I have so many scars on my soul, but now they were open for him to see them all.

Chapter Thirteen

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