A Woman Scorned Rises

minded me of why I had let

sed forever and delivered nothing. We were at a party, a bad one in a rough part o

t I was

He had been looking for me, relentlessly track

traight into the middle of the

dead," he told the b

elf. It shattered across his back. He didn't even flinch. He just fought. He wasn't a

and three cracked

ot from fear, but from shame. I was about to call my

reached over with his good ha

oft. "You don't have to beg t

in the eye, his own fa

he had said, his voice deadly seri

father, he shielded me from my stepmother, he gave me a family when his own mothe

n love with. The man who

in front of me no

ving only the harsh r

ace to the cigarette, then back

ut," he c

low drag, delibe

s, and threw it to the ground, crushing it with his expe

ted, his voice low and dangero

all about Sarah. A

ldn't even let me have a cigarette because

ur past died right there on the pavemen