Butterfly 2

by Ashley Antoinette

gang of killers but she felt obligated to keep them safe. She felt like if she called it would be too much. If she asked for help, they would judge her. The world would know that she had messed up her entire life and Morgan was tired of being the one with problems. She was tired of being the one that needed fixing. She could never let Ethic know that she had told Bash what he had done. Morgan had no choice but to play the game by Bash’s rules. What if Bash told what he knew? What if she left him and he used the information she had given him to put Ethic in jail? All these things ran through Mo’s mind in an instant and then her sister, Raven Atkins plagued her thoughts. She had never understood how she could be so weak for a man who hit her. She couldn’t understand because she was looking up at Raven from her childish vantage point. She couldn’t identify the manipulation or the mental bondage that Mizan had trapped her in. It wasn’t until this very moment that she understood because somehow against her will she had become just like Raven. She had become trapped by a man and she had an inkling in her gut that these instances of confrontation with Bash were the beginnings of abuse. Morgan wanted out, but she would remain silent because there was so much at stake. She wondered what factors had stopped Raven from asking for help. Morgan let her tears fall and she prayed that her silence didn’t lead to her death. She didn’t want to follow her sister to an early grave. She just h...