Their Cruelty, Her Conquest

and sharp like the betrayal that had pushed

ore me, his face a mask of r

oice raw, "You drove Chloe to try and

a suicide attempt after donating blood to our mother, Eleano

severe car accident, needing that O-n

o bring Chloe, and now he

voice lost in the wind, "S

hear me, or he

now glacial, reflecting

he said, a cruel twist to his

ds were on me

, and then I was falling, the city lights rush

my mother, alone, and t

blac

udden, vi

ding my lungs, my

leather and my mother' s fami

eat, her eyes wide with fear,

ld on!" sh

horn blared, and then the sick

spun, glas

body over me, a shie

ot through me, but a strange

y. The day it a

acci

alive.

settled,

ked out, my

over, a dark stain b

ay?" she whisper

g, the memories of my previous life, of Ethan' s b

Not

't be weak, I would

, my hands shaking, bu

ched in th

k, serious injuries," I managed

self, then Ele

," I said, pressing my hands to h

t nodded, her

me, of Ethan' s cruelty and Chl

would prote

I would g

loe' s lavish twenty-first birthday party, obl

save Mo

loser, a beacon of hope i

"It's going to be different

nderstanding in her pained eyes, or

my second chance, and