Escape The Light

by A.R. Thomas

I honestly thought, deep down in that minuscule part of me that has held onto the hope of a normal life, that he would be the man to fight for me. To slay my dragons, to scream at me that I was worth it, and he’d go down fighting to prove to me I was worth more than this false existence.

“You, my girl, are everything I never expected and exactly what I fucking wished for.”