To Marry a Monster
She collapsed into me, her tears soaking into my tactical jacket as she wept like a pup lost in the woods.
"Are you the Whitmore boy?" she whispered, her voice cracking. "Are you the one they hid?"
"I am Chika Whitmore," I said gently. "Who are you?"
She pulled back, her eyes suddenly clearing with a terrifying, lucid intensity. She gripped my forearms with a strength that shouldn't have been possible for her frail frame. "Twenty-two years," she croaked. "The moon has turned twenty-two times since the slaughter."
She leaned in, her breath hot against my ear, her voice a frantic, paranoid rasp. "Listen to me! Do not let them silence the blood! Do not forget Rickey Afolayan! Find Janet Blackwe
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