Blackwo
ged forward, blocking Kira's path. She w
rail body thrashing. "Please, let me go! Plea
hed with cold indifference. "Don't even try to
tep I took seemed to drain the life out of her. She looked at me not with
in there!" she sobbed, h
d out her name, my vo
itself had her by the throat. She collapsed to the floor and, to my absolute shoc
ease, let me go... let me go..." she
but a strange, suffocating
so thin that it looked like a stro
roud, arrogant
I treated her, no matter how much disgust I showed, Kira would al
my bed, sucking on a lollipop, and cheerfully declare, "Dorian, my father said the
get lost. But she would just laugh shamelessly. "Hitting is a sign o
ose allies, I had tolerated
ling in the dirt before me was a world apart from t
ve me back my daughter'
crowd, raining heavy punches and
ht ball, protecting her head. She knew this day wo
ust wante
l do whatever you want!" s
irritation washed over me. I stared at Kira's haggard face. She had lost so much weight; the
e irritation boiling ov
e, looking a
s I stepped forward. Kira shrank
ck, squeezed her eyes shut, and crie
gnoring her protests, I grabbed her arm and roughly yanked h
ally. "I... I won't
tally into the hospital room. "If you ha
her knees beside
her body shaking with fear. She didn't
. I stepped closer, my voice dripping with mockery. "I didn
t. She mustered all her courage, looked up at Isabelle with tear-filled eyes,
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