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He needed to be stopped.
I needed to make it all fucking stop.
“Joey, stop,” Mam begged. “You’re going to kill him.”
“Good!” My fists kept swinging of their own accord, in a frenzied blur of reckoning as my knuckles ripped open and bled all over the both of us. As I let my heart do the thinking for once and finished him off.
If I did time for it, so be it.
Someone had to end this.
It had to be me.
“Joey, you…promised…” A small hand pulled at my arm, breaking my concentration. “You promised you’d…never…leave…me…”
Shannon’s voice broke through the red haze in my mind and I jerked backwards, letting my hands falls to my sides as my sister’s voice continued to seep into my fucked-up brain.
Shannon.
Thump, thump, thump.
Shannon.
Thump, thump, thump.
Shannon.
Thump, thump, thump.
Numb to the bone, and with my mind reeling, I abruptly climbed off my father and stepped away.
“Teddy, oh god, Teddy,” Mam cried, rushing to his side. “What have you done?”
And there it was.
There she was.
Running straight to him.
It broke me.
Whatever held me together these past eighteen years splintered and spliced. Eyes wild, I looked around me, trying to make sense of the war zone we had been raised in. The war zone I was standing in.
Blood and tears.
Pain and pressure.
It was too much.
“Ollie.” Turning my attention to where he was cowering beside Shannon, I crooked my finger and beckoned him. “Go upstairs and get Sean.”
Because I had no doubt that the baby was hiding under my bed. I didn’t blame him. I wanted to be under that bed with him.
“Why?”
“Because we’re leaving.” Trembling from head to toe, I said, “We are not staying in a house with that piece of shit a day longer.”
Thankfully, Ollie did as I asked, making a beeline for the stairs without a hint of hesitation.
