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One of the shadows began to laugh again.The figure didn’t think I had the strength to open my eyes.I was weak.A disappointment.Nothing.Only good for one use.
To pay off her drug dealer.
Anger and frustration mixed together, and I fought the darkness.My need to look at the person responsible for that deep voice that eased the pressure in my chest outweighed the fear.The pain increased in the back of my head, shooting throughout my entire body, but I kept fighting.
She always said I was too stubborn for my own good.
Fuck.
I used to love it when she would tease me about it.
Saying I was just like her.
No!
I was nothing like her.
I’d worked my entire life to ensure I didn’t become her.
I studied.Got the scholarships.The acceptance letters.The awards.I wasn’t going to be stuck in a low-income apartment, living off assistance, and sucking cock for my next fix.Drugs were a part of her life.Not mine.I loved her, but I knew her failings.Her addictions.And I wouldn’t allow them to become mine.I wouldn’t be her.
I had a future.Goals.My life was planned out.
But she’d stolen it all from me.
For what?
Probably an 8 ball of coke and a few grams of heroin.Maybe an ounce or two of meth.
I hoped that junkie bitch overdosed on it.
“Give me a name, little one,” the voice urged quietly.“Tell me who did this to you.”
Mom.
My fucking mother did this to me.She stood by while the shadows stole me away.She watched with blank eyes as they carried me out of the apartment, hog-tied and tossed over some foul-smelling bastard’s shoulder.I didn’t doubt for a minute that she was high at the time.When she was sober, which was rare, things were okay.But when she was stoned, she was every kid’s worst nightmare.
No.That was wrong.
The shadows had proven what a lie that was.
They had been anyone’s worst nightmare.
But it became my reality.
And now, I needed to open my fucking eyes so I could get away from the hell they had trapped me in.
The hell that was inside my own mind.
With a scream, I grabbed for the first thing my fingers could latch on to and forced my lashes to lift.
CHAPTERFOUR
nishia
The lights hurtmy eyes after being in the dark for so long.Blinking, I quickly glanced around, making sure the shadows were actually gone.Every movement I made hurt, and I saw stars for a moment before I was able to focus.The awful fluorescent lighting overhead.The machines to one side.A chair to the other.
And sitting in that chair was a man with tangled dark-blond hair that fell forward as he leaned over my hand that he was still holding.His lips were pressed to my knuckles, but his eyes were on my face.I took all of him in.The thick, scruffy beard on his jaw, the straight nose with a small gold hoop in the right nostril.The brief flash of dark ink on his neck that disappeared down into a longsleeved shirt that stretched tight over his shoulders and chest.
