John's POV
TW: descriptions of violence
*steamy content*
Ellie stared at me as I told her there was more to my past. I've never told one soul what I'm about to tell her. But she deserves to know. Most of all, Ellie deserves a chance to save herself from me.
I took a deep breath and began. "I can't tell you how many homes I have been in over the years. Why nothing horrible happened to me, either because I was lucky or because whoever wanted to try was afraid of me, I'll never know. But it pales to the things I witnessed. I saw people, who children looked up to, do terrible things." I downed the rest of my beer to calm my nerves.
"When I was sixteen, I killed one of my foster parents." I was apprehensive of the gasp I heard from Ellie.
"I had been placed with the family a few months b
