“Damn it, Forest! Can’t you fucking see? I lose everyone in one way or another.” A vivid image of my father passes through my mind. “My parents, friends, family-” More and more faces flash in front of me, all of them dead. “And then for one fucking moment,” he continues, the night of the bonfire filling my mind. “There you were. Fragile and innocent, like a small bird.” His hands move away from my face and down my side. “And I wanted to keep that one good thing safe.” His hands squeeze my hips, my face flush with blood flow. “And they threatened to take it all… to take you away. A whole person
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