Don’t Make Me Love You
I filled out the application without letting myself think too hard about it, attached the resume I’d built under the name Lily Nolan, and hit send before I could talk myself out of it.
“Five years,” I murmured, “of nothing but this.”
I set the laptop aside and let my eyes fall shut.
I was back in our house. It was my seventeenth birthday, and everyone was there except Damian, who hadn’t arrived yet. The cake was cut, and the wine poured despite his absence. Laughter filled the room as they sang to me. Then something popped.
My father’s head split open as the men stormed in.
My mother fought them and took a bullet for it. Clara and I screamed, thinking it was over, until they dragged her towa
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