Stepping forward, I grabbed her by the shoulders, losing my patience with her as I began to shake her, but a whimper came from her lips before I could force her to tell me the truth, while I saw tears forming in her eyes.
“Please don’t hurt me.” She cried out to me, as I watched her eyes squint together, while tears began to slowly seep from the corners of her closed eyes.
Releasing my hands from her shoulders, I took a step back from her, ashamed of myself for not only hurting her, but for also making her fear me, leading me to try a gentler approach to her. “I’m not going to hurt you. I just need to know what you saw.”
Raven began to sob, as she clinched onto the book tighter in her hands, before she said through her tears, “I honestly don’t know what I saw.”
“So, you are admitting
