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Was it in my heart? My bones? My soul?
Wherever it was, it pushed me further to burn out.
The blackness inside me celebrated, sucking me deeper, deeper.
I reared back and shook my head.
Not yet.
I could succumb to my nightmares soon.
I could sleep…soon.
But first, I needed to erase her bruises.
I couldn’t look at them anymore.
Couldn’t have the reminder that I’d caused this.
Just like I’d caused them on my mother.
I only ever caused pain to those I loved and—
Loved?
I froze.
I don’t love her—
A surge of possession.
A cascade of emotion that siphoned hotly through my veins.
Love…
No.
I couldn’t.
I can’t—
Licking my lips from her salty, sad taste, I gritted my teeth and shoved away every thought.
The bandage around my arm grew wet with fresh blood as I forced shaking hands to finish the job of coating her in the entire tub of arnica.
Her breasts and belly had little circles bleeding outward. Spreading flowers of black, blue, and purple.
She was stunning.
Ruined.
Ily—
I choked on those three little letters, gagging on the three words they represented.
Another trembling panic attack turned my insides into a maelstrom.
Yanking the towel out from under her so she wouldn’t sleep on something damp, I tossed it into the corner before working the bedding down and tucking her in.
