Chapter 59

My mother had disarmed me so effortlessly, without even making a sound or lifting a finger against me.

"You shouldn't try to run; it won't work out well for you this time." Her words snaked out of her, binding me to the brokenness that threatened to break me.

I was always the one making the bad decisions, and now that I had broken away from my partner, I was here like a puppet, waiting for her to yank me from the safety bubble that I had foolishly gotten myself into. And to think that I wouldn't have been at the cruel whims of a monster who pretended to...