Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)

by H.D. Carlton

UNKNOWN: Sneaking off with random men, little mouse? If I catch his hands anywhere near you, they’ll end up in your mailbox by morning.

shoulders are starting to burn from my hunched-over position

“Dying isn’t the worst thing that happened to her. It’s just the worst thing that happened to you and her family,”

“The life she would’ve had to live would’ve been far more painful than where she is now.”

“But dying? Dying is not, Zade. She was screaming because she was fighting against the life that she was being forced to endure the only way she knew how. It wasn’t his

right to end her life. But he did it anyways, and I… I hope he suffers for it. But after what they did to her, I know that she is more at peace now than she would’ve been alive.”

Sometimes people just aren’t meant to live through that trauma. A shell of who they could’ve been. Broken and fighting every day not to die. I think if she had lived, she could’ve learned to be happy again. I think everyone who suffers from internal demons can find that. We're

all capable.

But sometimes, unseen forces take it out of everyone’s hands, and maybe that just means they were meant to find their h...

“You need space from me while wanting to be close. Sounds like a marriage,”