They will bow to you. They won’t be able to keep all those pesky little secrets from you. And you won’t have to see them hurt over you.
“The power we could be together would make you invincible. You wouldn’t need protecting,” it seduced, bending down in front of me.
I clenched my eyes shut, turning my head, refusing to acknowledge it. But it moved over me.
The shadows reached out, surrounded me, and I let out a whimper at the heaviness in my chest, the coldness aching in every bone I had.
I had to fight back. I had to stop them.
I reached inside myself, working through the fear, the cold, the dark, to find my own shadows. They were deep, but when I found them, when I reached for them, asked for their help, they were there, warming my body up from the inside out.
The connection
