The moment Eden had looked into her eyes, he had reminded her of Toby. It was the same look of horror, of incomprehension. Toby had assumed the same thing: that she had suffered abuse at the hands of someone. With Toby it had been under very different circumstances though – a friendship that had become a companionship. That when he had been keen to know more about her, she had shown him, to help her explain. She hadn’t felt embarrassment, despite knowing, even if she couldn’t fully recollect, that the scars hadn’t always been there. Back then it had been with no sense of vanity – like nothing more than a child showing another child a graze or a scar. Pummel had been the one to instil that sense of shame. He had first seen it after invading her bedroom one night, catching her exiting the bath. His initial reaction was morbid fascination, pinning her face first against the wall so he could take a closer look.
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