Chapter 1

"Wren, babe, can you take your clothes off for me? There's nobody out here…"

That familiar voice in my ear pulled me out of the pain of my body smashing against the rocks.

I opened my eyes and found myself staring into Colt Reeves's face, his eyes thick with lust.

In that moment, I understood. I'd come back.

Last time went exactly like this.

Colt had picked this remote little canyon for our graduation trip, somewhere out of the way but beautiful. We spent the whole day hiking and messing around, and then out of nowhere he said, "Wren, we've never tried it outdoors, you know…"

I never could say no to the person I loved. So I lay down with him in the tent.

I had no idea that three escaped convicts were already watching us.

All they'd wanted was our cash. But then they heard us, and something else crawled into their heads. They pulled a knife and forced me to go along with it.

At first Colt stood up for me. Then they beat him half to death.

To save him, and to buy time for the cops to get there, I swallowed the humiliation and gave in to those three men…

Colt took the chance to slip away, ran down the mountain, and called 911.

By the time the deputies showed up, I was broken, bruised from head to toe…

And Colt, because he'd helped the deputies catch the fugitives, became a hero known across the whole country!

After I got home, I was diagnosed with severe depression.

Even though the three of them had been caught, I woke up screaming every night.

Somehow what happened to me got out online, along with a pile of photos and videos I'd never seen before and had no idea where they came from!

Every day my DMs filled up with messages from strangers calling me a slut and damaged goods.

【If you hadn't wanted to screw your boyfriend in the woods, nobody would've targeted you. Maybe take a good look at yourself.】

【Three guys at once. You loved it, admit it.】

【Disgusting piece of trash like you, and you've still got the nerve to stay alive?】

I thought Colt would sit with me, help me through it. Instead he was too busy running around collecting awards and doing interviews.

He even used his background investigation as an excuse to pull away from me, bit by bit.

Then, after he got into the academy, he ended it with me for good, "I'm sorry, Wren. I'm going through a full background investigation. They look at who I'm with. I need a clean image, a clean girlfriend…

"And honestly, the second I touch you now, I can't even get it up!"

"Every time I look at you, I can't stop picturing you with all those guys, and I just…"

"You're dirty."

My blood turned to ice.

After the breakup, I couldn't take it anymore. Buried under the rumors and the humiliation, I jumped off a cliff.

But I never imagined I'd come back!

Not this time. I'm not living that life again. I'm done with Colt. I'm getting away from those killers!

Thinking that, I slapped Colt's hand away.

"Get your filthy hands off me! And get the hell away from me!"