Chapter 1

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 **Angel's POV**     I lay on the floor curled into a fetal position with my hands covering my head in this damp dark basement while my mother continues to hit and kick me repeatedly. I have to protect my head, so I don't go into a seizure again. That just makes things worse, no matter how hard she punches me or kicks me in the ribs I cannot make a sound or pass out or she will take more food and water away from me. I am already skin poured over bones; you can count every bone in my body I look disgusting like death has worn over times ten.      I got a plan though I just have to take this beating just until she gets tired and takes her drunk self-upstairs and passes out. that is when I am going to escape. See three days ago she beat me with a two by four so bad it broke and she left behind a piece she missed it was big enough for me to loosen the screws on the bars that are on the window. Then I will crawl out and run to the horse barn grab the black stallion jump on and let him take me as far as he can go away from here.  With another blow everything starts to go dark but I know I must fight it I have to so I can get out of here tonight. I do not know where I am going to go. I know no one in this small-town Dixon, Montana. I have been in this basement all my life never being let out the only reason I know what town I live in is because I overheard her talking to someone on the phone giving them our address. I do not even know my ABCs or how to read and I can barely count. That's the first thing I am going to do when I get out of here will be going to school.   I can feel her getting tired as the hits and kicks become less and less powerful. Not long now she is going to stagger upstairs and pass out. She will soon call me worthless give me one more kick or hit turn around go upstairs turn on the TV and pass out. I will know when she has passed out because that is when she will stop cussing at the TV.      "This is what you get for ruining my life in the first place I never wanted you but he made me that no good piece of sh*t, then he decides to go and died on me. What did you think I would just let you have everything.”?  she spats out with one more kick to the ribs before she turns and staggers upstairs. I think she broke something this time I can barely breathe. An hr. pass and the cussing stopped. I will wait a few more minutes just to make sure she is not going to wake up. I do not have anything to pack so that makes things a little easier she would never allow me any clothing except for this thin white raggedy cotton gown.     I crawl to the window and use the edge to pull myself up and remove the last screw. The bars were heavy, but I managed to slowly move them and crawl out the window. I take one last look behind me just to make sure she was still asleep and sprint off to the barn ignoring the horrific pain I am in. I make it to the barn and open the stallions stall door he is frightened at first, but he calms down as I whisper to him. " there is no way I can jump on you boy I am going to need your help we have to get out of here" I whisper. As if he understood me, he laid down for me to roll on top of him and then stood up and took off out the barn door. We ran straight for the woods the wind blowing in my long raven hair.      We got pretty far into the woods when the stallion stop at a small lake for a drink and that is when I heard the most beautiful wolf howl I have ever heard in my life it was like a song from the angels. But the stallion did not think it was so beautiful and reared up knocking me off. I screamed as I hit the ground from the pain it caused my already broken body. Before I could say anything, the stallion had taken off. AS I looked to where the stallion once stood, I saw the most beautiful wolf it was white with aqua-colored eyes mixed with speaks of gold. " Great I managed to escape the house of horror just to be killed by the most beautiful wolf," I say to myself when I see the wolf come closer to me back up against the tree. My heart rate begins beating out of my chest and it becomes harder for me to breathe. Suddenly everything starts to go black and I give in to the darkness not wanting to feel the pain of death.  
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