But standing there listening to Adebayo give the sanitized account, I thought of the parts he left out, and I understood that the scar Seraphina had exposed was the smallest and easiest of the marks that night had left on me.

The others do not show.

They never do.

Chapter 15 — Lowered Eyes

The guests who had laughed at my body a few minutes earlier now looked at the floor.

Some of them were ashamed.