The Awakening
Means he can't command me anymore, can't feel my emotions, can't track me through the tether that once tied my soul to his.
But freedom, I've learned, is just another word for alone.
I press my fingers to my throat. The bruises are already forming, ridges in the shape of his hands, proof that he touched me, proof that for one terrible moment, he wanted me dead.
The cell door creaks.
I don't open my eyes. I don't have the strength. But I hear the footsteps, heavy, deliberate, familiar and my body betrays me. My heart speeds up. My breathing quickens. Every nerve ending sparks to attention even as my mind screams stop, stop, stop.
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