Chapter 8

Ava’s POV I’d been free of my master for years, but my nightmares hadn’t stopped haunting me. I started residing in this town with Oliver. I didn’t really fit in this place. I was still frightened and scared of having friends around me. Many girls wanted to be my friends, and many guys wanted me to be their girlfriend, but I never gave any of them my scrutiny. Oliver encouraged me to move on with my life. She asked me to give one of the guys a chance. She suggested I go on a date with him to get to know him better. I tried to, but I always ended up shivering in front of them, so I decided to live on my own. I haven’t heard from or seen my father since I crawled out and fled from that hell. This was the safest place for me to hide from him. He was evil. He had abused me more times than I could remember, and he had done things to me that I should never have had to go through in my life. I will never forget and forgive him for all the torture he did to me. Oliver’s parents were so sweet a