18. RAVEN
I walked back from the window and headed toward the bed. My body felt light, lighter than feathers. I had never felt like this before in my life. But then again, how could I have? My entire existence had been a battlefield of pain, shame, and silent endurance. I didn’t know what it meant to feel... whole.
I didn't know how it felt to have someone want to care for me. That feeling was as foreign as all that was happening to me and that was why I didn't want to believe it.
I sighed, my eyes drifting to the file that lay untouched on the bedside table.
It had been sitting there for two days now… since the moment that that handsome man, the one who called himself Alpha Norman, had left it. I hadn’t dared open it, hadn’t even skimmed through the papers. My hands trembled every tim
