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The day he said I love you for the first time

The way he’d hold

I always felt so safe in his arms

More ht A beautiful and dark ages inside me but I can’t let the meo to battle for

I hold those thoughts at bay, the ones burning for o back and say I didn’t ive hiet I pull out the deed to my father’s trailer “Wild Horse Acres, Deadman’s Drop, Texas,” I read the address aloud to myself

Throwing caution to the wind, I roll down my s, turn up the radio as I leave

I don’t knohat ood as time as any to find out

Fuck Justin

I don’t need him and he sure as hell don’t need me

I need a new start

A new life

I want to be someone who isn’t me

Chapter 2

Hattie Mae

Two days later I pull up to a security gate with a guard shack The iron gate has a horse design cut out in the middle