Hazel Green

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t emotions, cutting into the deepest of hearts, and questioning the strongest ties. The only thing that seemed

r in front of her. “Jacob? I know you’re in there. I don’t have the time or the patience to play all these hide

hat wreaked of fiery intensity that Shelby was still struggling to decipher, like it rang a bell or something. His oversized black hoodie complimented by a pair of oversized black jeans made it even harder to make anything out of his unnerving

lmost immediately. “So

ct all innocent around me”, he gradually raised his head until he locked his pecul

icken voice. “I came here to start over. To be free from the burden of the past. But you’ve made my life a living hell already, and you’ve been here how long?”, she rhetorically asked. “I was doing s

ch i

to come here and pull me back into that darkness. But no more”, she said with an expression of

n on his knees. He put his arms up in the air, then gradually crossed them behind his head and said in a disturbingly calm voice, “So you

to a muddled, perturbed demeanor. “What’d you sa

can go ahe

ting the balance of the masked man who was kneeling in front of her. He likewise fell to the floor, and for a split second, was completely oblivious to, well, everything. He was still dr

and piece together what had just happened, a

ticed the gun in his hands and thought to hims

said get up”. Their eyes met, and

up from the floor and dusting off the di

oint if I’m being honest. He looked down at Shelby on the floor and painfully said, “I’m sorry for hitting you sweetheart, but it was the only thing I could come u

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lend of chairs ranging from moderate colors like brown in the living room, to cool ones like blue in the dining. It was as if it was handpicked to have nature’s very

scious female on the chair just

way, trying to uncover the details of where exactly she was and how she got there, until her peering eyes met Jacob’s uncalming smile. She immediately shook o

Jacob said, glancing the jackknife in his left hand and

managed to say while tr

“What do you mean