Chapter 7
Damien POV
I don’t know what’s come over me lately, but I’m no longer enjoying the cruelty I usually show to my younger
sister Winter. There’s just something about the way that she stares at me, so much pain in her gaze, that I feel a flash
of guilt. If our mother was still alive, then Winter would still be happy and a go lucky child or teenager, but instead
she’s grown up in a house full of abuse. I never used to mind, but lately it has been weighing heavily on my
conscience. My mother would be upset to see the way that father and I treat her. She loved Winter so much. Died
her little girl.
being on the warpath. Normally I wouldn’t, but today I felt like I needed to. The drunken old man had gotten himself fired again, but I guess that’s what happens when you constantly turn up to work either drunk or severely hungover. I’ve lost count of how many jobs he’s been fired from. It’s quite pathetic really. I know that he misses mum but surely he needs to move on at some stage? The last time! suggested that though, he turned on me and I’m
me for one night, for heaven’s sake.It’s not like they don’t see me at school every day. Well, at least on the days I bother to go. I rush back to the house but don’t
I didn’t even like facing my
hand. Where was Winter? Dread rises up inside of me. Normally, she would already be in the kitchen cleaning
metallic scent of blood in the air and my
the blood draining out of my face. I can’t believe my eyes and I force the
she looks like a
around her head and I can see it’s change of color, some of it old. How long had she been lying there
down and wrinkle my nose at the smell of her blood, relieved to see her chest rising and falling. She was breathing at least and had a pulse even if it seemed a little weaker than normal. I feel
old man” I say grimly, bending to pick her up, feeling her head draped against me
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