Ayah For The Ruthless
“You don’t have to worry. You don’t even know me.”
He smiled then, and it was startling, because for a moment his face lit up as though it could tear through the shadows. “That’s why it hurts. You’re beautiful.”
I froze. The word sounded foreign, strange, impossible. “How can my scars be beautiful?”
“They’re ugly,” he admitted, his fingers brushing lightly across one, his touch almost reverent. “But what lies beneath is not.”
I stared into his eyes, searching for the truth. “Who are you?”
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