Chapters
1. One: Welcome to my life
2. Two: cigarette burns
3. Three: delicate and fragile
4. Four: get out
5. Five: hideaway
6. Six: let's make a deal
7. Seven: wake up screaming
8. Eight: fake
9. Nine: silence as your answer
10. Ten: back in my dungeon
11. Eleven: tooth
12. Twelve: the chaos in the school
13. Thirteen: a gun to my lips
14. Fourteen: The fiancee
15. Fifteen: safety in the hospital
16. Sixteen: rain
17. Seventeen: Wound
18. Eighteen: Deserve
19. Nineteen: heart aching anxiety
20. Twenty: He's just Connor
21. Twenty-one: one day to forget
22. Twenty-two: happiness before the fall
23. Twenty-three: Emaline's past
24. Twenty-four: first dance in the rain
25. Twenty-five: bloody rain
26. Twenty-six: bloodied hands
27. Twenty-seven: Gracelyn Sinclair
28. Twenty-eight: dangerous act of arson
29. Twenty-nine: metal against my skin
30. Thirty: A babysitter
31. Thirty-one: painted in red and blue
32. Thirty-two: Cement Walls
33. Thirty-three: A new place
34. Thirty-four: something's off
35. Thirty-five: familiar pain
36. Thirty-six Surrounded by strangers
37. Thirty-seven: Survival
38. Thirty-eight: The form
39. Thirty-nine: Alec's family
40. Forty: ski resort
41. Forty-one: Threats
42. Forty-two: under the ice
43. Forty-three: two hearts break
44. Forty-three: nothing good lasts
45. Forty-five: the choice between staying and leaving
46. Forty-six: sold to the man in white
47. Forty-seven: Pills
48. Forty-eight: Waiting Game
49. Forty-nine: hate filled eyes
50. Fifty: I hate you
51. Fifty-one: come to me with open arms
52. Fifty-two: Questions answered
53. Fifty-three: Im not planning to let her go
54. Fifty-four: Restaurant
55. Fifty-five: Big mistake
56. Fifty-six: Restful Darkness
57. Fifty-six: The things we care for
58. Fifty-eight: Lives on the line
59. At this point in time
60. Sixty- remember how far you've come
61. sixty-one: unforgiving nightmare
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Nine: silence as your answer
Alec
As I step into my room, I immediately notice Temperance under the sheets of my bed. I keep my gaze on her fragile body. I take a step forward, her eyes are closed and her cheeks are red.
She is asleep, but droplets of sorrow dry on her delicate face.
My knuckles gently touch her cheek as ...
