He gruesomely raped her in front of me

Adonis

Watching Cora struggle to stay alive on a hospital bed was terrifying. More than anything else I have ever felt. Not just because of the fact that the doctors might not be able to flush out the poison and she might die, but because the scene evoked memories that I had struggled to keep buried.

Years of therapy could only go so far, but soon, I caved in to the hollow darkness eating me up inside. I have seen Cora nearly die so many times, and seeing it again now… and not being able to do anything to save her had reduced me to the sad, helpless and scared two year old kid I once was. I was dying inside.

Dominick was pacing in the hospital waiting room, yelling into the phone and narrating what had just happened at the person on the other end of the call. But that roiling and burning anger I had felt initially had faded into something else.

Something that was consuming me inside. Something I could not explain, but I was very familiar wi