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You’re okay, everything is okay… I repeat to myself

It’s been years since I’d felt fear like that, not since I was a little girl living in foster care My skin crawls, and I suppress the thought

All thathappened to me

Everything is going to be okay…

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Slaony overtakes his features He should’ve known he would die, especially after touching as mine

An iet away fro, blue eyes bri er from that memory sink deep into my bones

“What were you planning to do when you got her alone? Huh? Why were you following her?” I growl,second Part of me doesn’t want to knohat he had planned, but the other, bigger part does I want to hear the words, want theer even more

“I don’t knohat the fuck you’re talking about,” the bastard sneers, playing stupid

I cock ive hi idiot, huh? That I didn’t see her tell you no That she didn’t push you away? Or that I didn’t watch her run out of the house and down the street? That I didn’t see you follow a short while later”

If it wasn’t for me, he would’ve hurt her, but I was there, just as I’ve always been And just like all the others who have tried to hurt Dove, he too will die at my hands

“You’re fucking crazy!” he spits Blood drips down his lip froainst it, and all I can do is stare at it I can’t stop the cruel ss with joy, and the dark beast inside ht of his blood