Trent
This whole time, Payton was lying to me. Maybe not lying, but not being completely honest with me, either. It nearly killed me having to listen to her go into details about that night with Mark. I knew that he had put his hands on her, but I never thought it was something like that. If I ever saw him again, I would kill him. Payton could handle herself, but there was a line that men did not cross with another man, and he was way beyond that line with me.
While they took her out in handcuffs, I stood there like a dumbass. I had no idea what to do. Hearing Payton say that she was raped had to be the most shocking thing to me. Instead, a man who was supposed to protect h
