Ruin Me, Blackwood
“I’ve been running for so long—from my past, from myself, from everything that scares me. Pretending I could keep it all locked away.”
I watched her carefully, gauging her reaction. There was no shock. No disgust. Only quiet patience that somehow made it worse, because it reminded me she was waiting for me to open up. To let her in.
“I’m broken, Amelia. Not just the usual scars people wear on their sleeves. I carry things—dark things—that I thought were buried deep enough that no one would ever find them.” My voice dropped to a whisper, raw and unsteady. “But you’ve found them anyway.”