A Woman Scorned Rises
minded me of why I had let
sed forever and delivered nothing. We were at a party, a bad one in a rough part o
t I was
He had been looking for me, relentlessly track
traight into the middle of the
dead," he told the b
elf. It shattered across his back. He didn't even flinch. He just fought. He wasn't a
and three cracked
ot from fear, but from shame. I was about to call my
reached over with his good ha
oft. "You don't have to beg t
in the eye, his own fa
he had said, his voice deadly seri
father, he shielded me from my stepmother, he gave me a family when his own mothe
n love with. The man who
in front of me no
ving only the harsh r
ace to the cigarette, then back
ut," he c
low drag, delibe
s, and threw it to the ground, crushing it with his expe
ted, his voice low and dangero
all about Sarah. A
ldn't even let me have a cigarette because
ur past died right there on the pavemen