guard bursts into the room,

ng disabled kids to paint a

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ushing against the cold, em

my sto

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be miscarrying," he says,

he phone. "She's too disobedie

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r, pounding on it w

baby!" I scream, my

comes through the do

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ty womb, whispering: "Alex Hilton, the

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surrounded by white sheets a

rs trembling as they to

, hollow, a

n, and Alex enters, his f

ke eyes and a shock of red hair that fa

d as she glares at me, her

eaten my parents? Can't control your ma

rn to

aze is fix

gh my heart as I remember th

, my voice barel

t you save

in my direction, his voi

t pregnant witho

right to a child

rrec

eyes flashing. "Alpha Alex, I'm not here

ngly, then turns to me, his

away and threatened he

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won'

s with rage, and

s glowing with the feral lig

r they will he

im, hope flicke

d times' sake? But he si

s grab my

d, and I fall to my kne

nd out through

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t her a

ds, then

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harsh sound, and cru

ket and pulls out his ph

papers. Give Yuki

being squeezed in a vice

rutal shrine punishment to make me his ma

lex says, tilting Susan's

datory, and I can see the

, but over his should

rrives with the divorce

t's all pretense. He'll rem

s fixed on the signature l

r leave him, that I was desti

that steals your self - worth

n, I pick up the p

mething inside me cracks, but beneath

is time, I'm the