Chapter 49: Nikki

"You're prettier than your mom said you were." His lip curled, and I became the object of his desire.

"Ralph," my mom moaned his name. The guy below her never stopped moving, and her breath hitched when he hit a spot she seemed to rather enjoy-I nearly vomited. "Leave her...alone." She was geeked out and wouldn't be of any help.

Ralph-I assumed was the man who now stood between me and my escape-was a brute. In any other circumstances, he might have been considered good looking. I assessed him, not out of curiosity but rather self-preservation. He was stacked from his thick neck to his tree-trunk thighs.

I backed away, trying to put distance between me and what appeared to be my mother's pimp, but he'd narrowed the gap between us with each step he took that were twice the size of mine. To get to my room, I'd have to get past my mom, and to escape through the door, I'd have to get by Ralph. Neither option held much promise, and the closer he got, the more I froze.

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