Alpha Ruined My Family After Giving Him My Heart

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n ripped my clothes to shred

nd barely recognized her own reflection-over to the firepla

hen wedged a chair under the doorknob

licked the curtains, her confuse

he frosted glass, the way it warped and blackened

hed it all-watched me being

he gnawed through the zip ties with h

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year of love, when he needed a heart transplant t

s in my chest, and it's got te

ing the diagnosis paper, the words "ar

n my head: "ten days at most

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ne Walsh, cousin Rachel Bennett, best friend Sama

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into my palms,

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slamming into my ribs, a sicke

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agging me to the basement corner where

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