Valerie
I closed my eyes, bracing myself for the impact. The pain.
Was this going to be my end? Was history going to repeat itself?
All this time, avoiding everything all to end up like this. Things being different but the same.
Maybe I shouldn't have egged her on. I should have been softer. Begged and pleaded for my life. If not for anything else, for the sake of my child.
But I hadn't. And if time was turned I probably wouldn't. Not after everything I'd heard.
How ironic it was that I'd caused my own death, this time more directly. A twinge of guilt and shame filled me.
‘I'm sorry,’ I whispered to my child. Perhaps I deserved it but they didn't.
But it was too late. I was dying and so would they. I wasn't foolish to beg the Moon Goddess for a second chance. The life I'd lived
