Abby’s POV My legs trembled, weak from standing too long, but Ruby kept me upright, her arms still wrapped around me.“I can help numb the pain in your chest, if you want me to,” she whispered.I shook my head. Tears slipped free anyway. Ruby had always helped ease the weight in my heart with her spells and potions whenever the pain became too much, whenever sleep refused to come.Not tonight.Tonight, I needed to feel every dreadful piece of it.For the first few weeks after I arrived here, I couldn’t sleep. Nightmares stalked me. Marbel lying in a pool of blood, Clara dying in front of me, the wild animal that nearly tore me apart. Every nightmare chased me awake, every horror tied back to one name.Hayden.For the past three years, I had convinced myself I hated him for everything he put me through. But watching him hover seconds from death shattered me all over again. How could I still feel this way when I knew he had never cared about me?And Derek…I had always believed he was
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