The Pack's Rebels
“They told me that they loved me as they hurt me.”
“I don’t love you,” he told her with cold brutality.
“Well, duh,” she replied and moaned as he removed the needle that he’d been slowly sliding under her nail. Blood pooled in the nailbed, and trailed the needle as it was removed, dripping over her fingertip. He released her hand, his grip leaving it’s memory imprinted in her blanched skin, the blood rushing in, blushing the skin in a way that promised that there would be a bruise later. “I don’t think you know how to love. Someone who can hurt people like you do, doesn’t have the empathy to love,” she accused.