Chapter 10
Before I even knew what I was doing, I slapped him back.
I froze. Why did I do that?
I couldn’t believe what I’d done. But it was too late. I couldn’t take it back.
While I was standing there questioning why I even hit back, he slammed his fist into the left side of my face before I could raise an arm to defend myself. My head jerked violently as the pain shot through my cheek and into my eye socket. I saw stars before my eyes and a weird numbness crept over me, along with panic.
As my eyesight cleared, I could see a wall in front of me and realised I was lying on the floor. It scared me to think that I didn’t even know I’d fallen. Hadn’t even felt it.
Oh, no. Why didn’t I feel it? What has he done to me?
The panic spread like ice through my veins. What kind of damage had
