Marabella POV
This isn’t the life I wanted or would choose for myself. I have tried so hard. All my life, I have known nothing but effort - attempts to fit in, attempts to please everyone and make them happy while my needs, thoughts, and feelings were left aside. I shoved them so far away that no one could notice I ever felt hurt. But this time, I am the one who can make the choice. This time, I will take my life into my own hands and choose for myself, not others.
If the shadows want me that bad… if they are so desperate to have and consume me, they can have me. They can have all of me, even my last breath with that, so I choose death.
How foolish of me, how silly of me to believe I ever could be anything but another burden. No matter where I go, with whom I go, I become the same old burden I’ve been my entire life.
I won't be a burden anymore; I won't go back to that place. I can’t do it anymore. They’re right, I am not strong enough because I can’t even be bothered to try to fight a
