Make Me Lie (Rich Demons of Darkwood, #1)

by C.R. Jane

"The only way anyone will ever see you as a victim again is if you want them to. And at any time, you can pull the blindfold from their eyes and show them you're always the one with the knife."

But given that I’d been bottle-fed trauma from infancy, maybe I didn’t have the best instincts.

the past was a distraction from surviving the present.