“He only hit me once. I was fourteen, and I’d had so many running injuries, my doctor told me I had the body of a forty-year-old athlete. I was fucking heated. Like, why am I ruining myself for him? What for? It was never enough. So, I felt all rebellious one day and got my brow pierced.” Bash shook his head, remembering. “I knew he’d hate it. But I didn’t think he’d punch me in the jaw.”

