Between Hate and Fate
“I was too weak once, too weak to save my sisters and too late to do anything. And when I saw him there, standing over her crib... I thought I was too late again.”
I want to reach out, to tell him I’m here, but something keeps me still. Maybe it’s the vulnerability in his voice, the way he’s letting himself fall apart in the quiet of the night, thinking I’m asleep.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever be enough,” he continues, his voice rough. “Enough to keep you both safe. I tell myself I will be, that I’ll do whatever it takes, but sometimes... sometimes it feels like the world is against us.”
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