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Lean back.
Drop your head.
Push your chest out.
Exhale slowly and shut your eyes.
Don’t show them that the pretty face they’re paying for isn’t real.
She died long ago.
Go somewhere far from here, somewhere you can anchor yourself to the last glimmer of happiness in your life.
Happiness.
That word would never touch my life again. Happiness wasn’t meant for girls like me.
Girls like me grasped the only thing we could find that kept us alive.
And for me? That was this. These moments that slowly killed me a little at a time.
My own vicious circle.
One I would continue to live until I died.
My full lips twitched into a wicked grin. A laugh tumbled from my mouth. The sound low and throaty, hinting at the madness within.
I stayed in a darkened corner of the room, letting myself become one with the shadows. Watching every step he made. Waiting for the moment he’d see.
Because he would see.
His movements were as jerky as an addict’s. His muscles twitched. His head snapped with every groan from the settling house and every nocturnal sound that filtered inside. Positive that at any moment, the sound would be me.
Like he would hear me.
No one ever did. His old man hadn’t when I’d silenced his cries for mercy an hour ago, and this arrogant asshole wouldn’t either.
That didn’t mean they hadn’t known.
Eleven days.
