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I better get it over with now

Before I start to think of her as mine

It’s too late

With a el toward the stairs, feeling as though I’m a pallbearer atthe privilege of holding her for even a h

Gratitude I hold on to it on ht

Chapter Two

Fawn

I’ve never been warmer or safer in my whole life

He’s a giant An actual giant has come to rescue me

And I kneho he was the second I heard his voice

It’s the man from the forest

My father doesn’t always keep et to come ho at s me down there by my hair and slaps the shackles on I never knohen it’s co as a week I’ve found a way to make the tihtbulb in the baseo, so I haven’t been able to read the old, beat-up notebooks I found hidden in the wall No one knows about the erotic stories, except for me And whoever wrote them, I suppose

Itfor sure

Thiswhile reading those scandalous tales He’s been occupying my dreams ever since the first tiinedthe ined hiht on top of hly over mine?

Hundreds of times? Thousands?

We’ve alins to riddleme?

Then I relax