6

For the next ten minutes, Malik had to sit right through Edna's explanation of her horrific nightmare.

What makes it even worse is the fact that this isn't just a dream, it was something that happened in real life and it just remained stuck in her head for so long. Like a loop, each time she goes to sleep, it plays over and over again in her damn head. He was there, he knows.

He wishes he had strangled his brother that day and ended it before it even started. How is it that his mother gave birth to someone as evil as Keith?

" It doesn't have to bother you anymore," Malik says. His mood has been dampened by what he has heard. " I saved you that day."

"Yes, you did. " She looks up and presses her index fingers against tej side of her eyes. A failed attempt to keep the tears where they are.

"Don't tell me that Keith did get his way with you after that day." His eyes look hopeless. He knows. He is just holding to a thin thread of hope here.

"What do you think?" She waves her hands. "