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THERE COMES A point in life where determination supersedes circumstance Where willpoins over what should be done

I’d lived in that point for two years

I fought my battles silently I lived in a war zone without a word I didn’t do it consciously; I did it because I had no other choice

My idiotic will to survive kept , even when none existed And every day granted punisher entered my prison

He made it worse

So, so much worse

But then he came back

He stole me

Just in time

ARRIVING AT THE dock relaxed me a little

Not that I was tense

Killing didn’t fazewoman didn’t increase h worse

It was just another day in my world

However, during the last few kiloain—either from pain or shock or loss of blood

Most likely all three

I didn’t intend forI wanted her I wanted to keep her—for the tiardless of what it would do to le I would endure

The second I’d set eyes on her, this was the path I’d chosen It was inevitable for a man like me

Her strength, her bruises…everything about her screa to hope That blind faith, tolerance for forgiveness, and stupid belief she could win latched onto the obsessions inside me and made me care

I didn’t want to fucking care About anyone anyiven a shitty life and soloith expectation that somehow, someway, she’d be free

Free

I scoffed

I’d stolen her with the intention of keeping her, not freeing her

Her blood and silence forced aze but only to prove I could keep her alive and deliver a better kind of life, even while still belonging to someone