Chapter Forty-seven: Worries In His Embrace.

 RYDER.

She knows how to fuck with my emotions. She calms me without even knowing herself.

My father's death is something that weighs heavily on me, I knew he was going to be gone soon but still... I didn't know how I will feel about it until now. Knowing that I have no other family any more apart from Minerva tears me up and knowing that I'm the cause of it breaks me even further.

I wasn't thinking. I couldn't. I needed to get out of here. Need to fight. Have to fight. The feeling of blood dripping down the knuckles, the metallic scent that hits me always has a way of calming me down. It always does, until now it's been the only thing I rely on whenever I need help. Until now, it's the only way I know how to keep my senses sane and now somehow, in a way that makes absolutely no fucking sense to me, this girl in my arms seems to be able to calm me down with only a few words from her. Oh, Dawn, what have you done to