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they didn t leave overnight, and they almost always did. Some were tougher to get rid of than others.
One of them told me that I was a nasty little bitch and would get mine one day.
Holt tightens his grip over me.  Fucking pieces of shit.
 You got that right. But I had made a promise to my dad the day he said goodbye that I d make
sure my mother was never alone, and that s what I intended to do be right there with her. I blow
out a breath.  So here s the big one. My body trembles as the words jerk up my throat. I swore to
myself that Jemma would be the last person I ever told. I guess I could break a promise to myself.
This probably wasn t a healthy one to keep to begin with.  On the night before my eighteen birthday
 it was almost the end of my senior year, and I had already been accepted to three different colleges
 I was working a shift over at the studio. I twist into him and catch his gorgeous face as the
moonlight kisses it with its translucent beams.  You were there.
 Me? His eyes round out like twin globes.
 Yes, you. I sneak a kiss onto his mouth.  You came to pick up Annie with your mom, and for
whatever reason you lingered in the studio. It was just the two of us. The music had just finished, and
I was cleaning up you looked right at me and said 
 Izzy Sawyer you are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen, he finishes the sentence for
me.
 You remember?
 Heck, yes, I remember. It took me weeks to work up the courage to do that.
 Holt. My chest heaves, and I try to restrain myself from bawling.  That was the last good
moment. The last innocent part of who I was. I give a hard sniff.  I drove home. Mom had to take
Laney to a friend s house, and she ended up staying, too. It was just me and Chuck. I could tell he d
been drinking, and I tried to go straight to my room, but he tackled me. No warning. No come here
sweetie, why don t you sit by me for a while like he used to when he tried feeling me up. This was an
all out assault. He jumped me right there on the living room floor, and, before I knew it, he was
tearing off my clothes. I still had my leotard on and my dance tights, so it was near impossible for him
to do anything but twist me up in a knot. I close my eyes.  I can still feel his hands on my body,
squeezing my breasts until I thought I would burst. His fingers slithered south, and he did things I
don t want to remember. I look up at Holt as tears roll down his face.  Um, he didn t, you know, but
he came close. I was still a virgin when we 
Holt lands his lips over mine to quell me, and I swallow down the rest of the words. Holt
knows. A weight has been lifted off my body. An entire iron pot I ve been carrying around with me
all these years has slipped from my grasp, and I m light as a feather. I m finally set loose from the
nylon chains I was fettered in all those years ago. Just speaking it out loud, right here to the man I
love, set me free from the power that monster had over me all this time.
 As strange as it sounds, that felt good to get out, I whisper the words with a thread of shame.
 That doesn t sound strange at all. Izzy  he blows a breath into my hair, warming me  I want
to find him and kill him.
 No. It s over. I m fine, and Laney is fine. He took off the next day, and it was back to square
one with Mom and her steady string of morons. None were ever as bad as he was. I was able to
protect Laney until she was off to college. I hung around and made sure there were no more perverts
 which there were, but I ran them all off, one by one. Also, I was determined to keep my promise to
my father and not leave my mother alone. It was sort of my fault she was alone to begin with, but I
couldn t let those assholes stay and I knew if they couldn t I d have to. It was a small price to pay.
 They were never going to stick around and be loyal to your mom, Iz. You did the right thing by
kicking their asses out the door. She was sucking off the bottom of the pond, to put it mildly.
 I can see that now. And, with my dad back, it sort of eases the burden off me a bit.
 Are they together?
 I don t know. He s staying at the house, but he s in Laney s old room.
 I guess it s all going to work out like it s supposed to.
 For the first time in a long time, I m okay with that. A dull laugh rattles from my chest.  When
I was a kid, before my dad left, I had this jar that I used to whisper my wishes and dreams into. It
sounds insane, I know, but I thought that way I could always have them. I thought maybe someday
when I was older I d unleash them into the world, and they d come true. I turn to face him fully and
gaze up at his sharp cut cheeks, the brows that fan over his stainless-colored eyes.  And here you are.
Every wish and dream I ve ever had alive and in the flesh.
His eyes shine like shards of broken glass.  Izzy  he presses it out like a dying breath  I
want you to have that again. I want you to believe in all of your wishes and dreams. I want to be able
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