Chapter 60

The hardwood floor from where I had collapsed under my mother's cruel hands was fused to my muscles when I woke up the following morning, a throbbing pain growing inside of me like poisonous vines wrapping around my limbs and imprisoning me.

I woke up with a burning sensation in my blood and a burning sensation against my bones from the iciness, and I wanted to return to the dark.

I was softer because of the years I spent hidden from her sight, away from it all, I was an idiot for pushing her memories to the back of my memory in the hopes and prayers that I...