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“You can go and I’ll do everything in my power to protect you”

She rubbed her ar out her father’s illegal business was a long shot There were always so hters They had been nothinga hand down her face, she thought about Ava

Belle had i daisies, or just being happy Now she just saw the pain, the blood The bruises that always coated her body after a fight That was not the life she wanted for her

I’ll come for you, Ava I promise

First, Mo

“I want to help,” she said “I need to find Ava, but I also want to stop ood”

“What?”

“More than anything else right noant hter But I know the only way for her to have the kind of life I never had is to make sure my father and that seedy as fuck politician are shut down” She saw hiot an idea”

“I’ve got so to like all of it”

“I don’t have a doubt” She sighed “I’ off on you there”

“You’re a et that”

This did ood mother was important to her “She’s all I have I’m not an idiot I knowfor sy I just, I love her I want the best for her, and the only way to do that is to ht” She took a deep breath

“You’re a good mom”

She chuckled “You haven’t even seen irl”

“You illing to fight ten ti to be easy”

She took a deep breath “Nothing in life is easy So, what do you want to do?”

“Come on, let’s head to my office”

She followed hiain It had been a week since she’d been here, and no matter how often she tried not to like his place, it didn’t see compared to this For one, it didn’t have cockroaches as pets, so that was a plus She’d lose sleep every single night worried that they were crawling all over her daughter She’d wake upsure she was safe and nothing was har her