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“Eden, look at me,” Jude says softly, “You’ve had a long day.”
When I still refuse to let go, he pleads, “Let me help you. Please.”
It sounds so unnatural, so unlike him, I shiver a little.
Help me?
Even after everything I’ve done, he still wants to help me?
Why?
Emotion swelling up inside me, I force my gaze to turn his way.
To find his face.
And it’s a mistake.
Because the second I let him pull me away from the doorframe, darkness takes me.
Falling like a black curtain in front of my eyes.
* * *
When I openmy eyes again, the curtain is wrapped tight around me.
Suffocating me with darkness.
It’s so black, I can’t see shit.
Panic quickly begins to take hold. My heart fluttering and taking flight like a frightened bird.
Where the fuck am I?
Did I die? Did Jude really kill me instead of sparing me?
Am I in Hell?
Bolting upright, I try to slap and punch the curtain away.
And I swear I feel it punching me back.
Just like Kyle did.
I canhearhim screaming at me as he hits me. Screaming that I’m worthless. That I’m a stupid fucking dirty whore.
I’m a shitty mother who doesn’t deserve her child.
“No! Fuck you! Let me go!” I hoarsely shout.
“Eden?” Jude says with alarm.
Hearing his voice should be frightening.
But it’s the exact opposite.
“Help me, Jude,” I beg as I try to fight off the shadow. “Please!”
A light flickers on, illuminating the world with too much brightness.
