"Kneeling in prayer will never feel as good as kneeling before him.”Baron’s POVEzreal’s eyes lingered on me a moment too long, cold, sharp, and merciless. Then, with that same cruel smirk I’d seen so many times since he came back from jail, he pulled back.“If you want to talk to me, Father,” he said, his voice like the scrape of a blade against glass, “you’ll have to wait. I’m filthy. There's blood all over me and I'm in desperate need of a shower.”The words hit me harder than they should have.I swallowed, memories flashing uninvited, the night he’d told me to wash his body as he sat in the bathtub, his voice low and taunting as he pulled me close for a kiss, as though daring me to find salvation in his hands. He had always been under my skin. I just forced myself to ignore it. I forced the image out of my mind.I hadn’t come here for that.I didn’t even know why I came here. I only knew that after what I’d seen at my father’s house, the weapons, the deceit, the lies dressed as
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