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.
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
my gut, turning to my friends and blowing them off as they protest.Whatever this feeling is, I sense I need to go home. They can deal without 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 run.The entire time I try to convince myself that everything is fine and that I’m just overreacting. After all, my gut could
even like facing my father when he
father snoring wildly in the recliner, a beer bottle loosely clutched in his hand. Where was Winter? Dread rises up inside of me. Normally, she would already be in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner, but I couldn’t see her from my
metallic scent of blood in the air and my heart sinks. I know instinctively that it’s
stopped, absolutely horrified, all the blood draining out of my face. I can’t believe my
she looks like a rag doll, both of her
old. How long had she been lying there like that for? God, what had father done? This
blood, relieved to see her chest rising and falling. She was breathing at least and had a pulse even if it
grimly, bending to pick her up, feeling her head draped
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