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I let out a huer “If the shoe fits I sat when he told me to sit I spoke when he wanted me to talk And…and I came when he wanted me to come I ell trained Hell, he even called me pet on occasion”
Dr Carr’s eyebrows shot up, and I realized that I’d said more than I’d wanted to
“I need to go” I gathered up my purse and stood
“We still have half an hour left,” she protested “I think we should talk this through”
“I don’t”
I hastily exited her office, and struggled to control e to vo in my ears was all I heard as I stumbled down the hall The pressure ininstead for the stairwell Once inside, I gripped onto the cold, ulps of air
Two years Two years I’d worked to forget I’d worked to force thoseassaulted by theh ly real, accompanied by phantoer! I always knohat you like Your body tells me every ti the air from my body
“Get out! Get out!” I shouted, hoping the ithe back of ht replayed inforced to watch as he did that to me The blood My blood The dead look in his eyes, the sinister curl of his lips as I fought to hold in the screams out of fear they’d hear My parents He’d hurt them I couldn’t let them know
The , thestars danced in front of er!” Seth’s voice tauntedThe pressure mounted Blood pounded in my ears My breaths: quick and shallow “You’re er hold the contents ofloosened There was silence I was falling
Chapter 11
Malcolm
Getting a phone call to say someone you love had been in soet to the hospital as soon as possible was hard enough once And it was soain Yet here I sat
Being back in a hospital lobby brought backfound had been short lived upon seeing her condition Beaten, starved, and dehydrated, but alive We could see her, hold her, touch her Waiting for final word fro her recovery would be had
Ginger had beenable to see her had et any infor killed me
It didn’t help that I’d felt torn about where I should be that fateful day Moiven er Macy had all of us there for her, but Ginger had no one since her parents aiting to get a flight out and Dorian couldn’t have cared less Mo there scared shitless and seeing the worried look on their faces that I fully understood what I’d put e when I’d overdosed I re