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“You are so concerned with fighting the bullies at school, Mam,” I sobbed, tears streaming down my cheeks, “when the biggest bully of them all lives under this roof.”
“Give me a name,”
This one is for keeps.
You could love this girl your whole life, the crazy thought persisted inside my brain over and over, if you just let yourself.
just wanted her. For keeps.
“Shannon like the river,”
“Bulldozer.”
“Hi, Johnny.”
“Boom, boom, fucking boom, Da,” I groaned, slapping a hand against my chest. “I’m done for.”
“I think I need you for keeps,”
Johnny was asleep.
You are not going to die in this house. Not today.
She went to him. He beat us. Terrorized us. Tortured us. And she went to him. She chose him. Our own mother.
“Him or us?”
