Menace (Scarlet Scars #1)

by J.M. Darhower

But the gut? The gut knows. The gut remembers. You should always listen to it.

“How can you drink that?” She shuts the fridge door and leans back against the counter, regarding me as she holds the carton. “This coming from a guy who drinks rum straight from the bottle?” “Rum has its benefits. There’s no benefit to what you’re drinking. There’s not even any pulp in it.” “What are you, the orange juice police?”

There’s a reason girls yell ‘fire’ instead of ‘rape’, why we lie and say we have boyfriends instead of just saying ‘no’ when we’re not interested. Because a lot of men respect another man’s property more than they respect a woman’s right to her own body.