"Maybe there's something wrong with me..." She rubbed her neck. Bill had left scars there too but they were nearly invisible now. "I'm trying to quit it cold turkey and it's harder than I thought but I can never have a normal relationship or a normal life while I'm so screwed up." she blurted out. Nobody had ever cared to ask her, had bothered and poked and prodded her so much.
"I want to be normal but what if I can never be normal?" she looked up at Nigel. "And now I got these things..." she lifted her shirt up, showing him everything there. "Like he's branded me forever. I'm his and I can't ever, ever be anyone else's now."