I lay alone in Calder’s bed with the door locked and the blankets piled on top of me. It had been seven hours since Hellana had left, and I refused to leave this room. Calder was in my bed, Darius downstairs.
My entire body ached, not only with pain from letting my father leave with the baby and the girl, but also with the agony of what he had done to me. It was like I had relived my entire life over again when I saw him.
Paralyzation. Fear. Rape.
It stung me so f*****g deep.
When I squeezed my eyes closed, I faced all those tortuous memories. When I opened them back up, I saw the pain in Hellana’s eyes after I told her we couldn’t save the baby. It was constant torment that I’d never push away.
Someone knocked on the door. I sank further down in the bed and pulled the blankets over m
