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Fox would know--he’d learnfro in her brown eyes "I can Can you tell ood stories? I bet you do I bet you got your scar fighting a dragon while saving so through her young body

Fox nodded "I have a few stories I could share" He bent in half and whispered in her ear "I’ve never told anyone, so you’ll have to tell ood"

Clara bea in her eyes "I’ll tell you I’o see the horses now?"

Fox looked to me I looked to Clue Clue looked to Ben Ben looked to Clara

There was only one answer to give, but it wasn’t the one I wanted I wished Fox had never set eyes on Clara as I doubted I’d ever get theavetoward the house

With a heavy heart andto the knife in ers rapped around hter’s

Chapter 14

All humans collected fondfellow recruits what their happiest recollection was Where did theirbeaten or ordered to ed froirl, to their favourite food Not once did we include our fa for trouble

I broke that law by thinking of Vasily

The three months while we shared a bedroom were the worst and best of my life I was responsible for his food, water, and shelter I was his protection His brother and friend Knowing he relied on aveleft inside uished, all chance of happiness blotted out All trace of who I’d been erased--just like they’d planned

I’d lived almost ten years in silent persecution before the walls caved, sun shined, and pain rained anew

A child was hter of the woman I tried to kill

It was time to face my past full of darkness and say fuck you

It was ti burned

Her every touch scraped flesh froetneither judgeh shaved away ht

But then there was the conditioning

On top of her miraculous effect, I battled an entire lifeti fiercely in my blood

"Kill her"

"Annihilate her"

"We won’t coain"

"Do it"

The orders were a constant stream of filth in my head

I sweated and shook and ached with rapidly increasing urges, intensified with refusal

Being in Clara’s presence gave ain would I need to lift a blade toas I had her near me, I had both pleasure and pain, hope and dauessed irl But every ti My body fought against the lifeti its old scales and rottenness

The transfors, but it also crushed ht? What if I couldn’t keep my oath and hurt Clara just like I did her mother?

I hadn’t meant to snap today I tried to stop it even as I fucked her I just wasn’t strong enough, and that killed ht Tell her to leave Run Never co someone so innocent, I knew I could never be a martyr and send her away That would be a death warrant, and I was selfish--so incredibly selfish--to want both daughter andafter us with a fierce glare in her green gaze Feelings I’d kept locked away shattered throughthat whatever bond existed between us wasn’t soive up

For the first tie how deep my attraction for her went, how badlyand not abusive fucking I wanted her to be my first--my first real connection

I want her to touch ht then and there to fixa pussy I wouldn’t stop until I was cured enough for Zel to touch every inch ofher and hold her close

I thirsted to ht of herovermy scars and tattoos I wanted her to understandthe door, Clara dashed forward "Wow!" Her bright cherub voice rung around the foyer

My heart lurched in awas for sure: Clara would be my annihilation She already held the fuse to destroy me completely