Adeline Chapter Twelve: simply being
My throat was raw as I tried to scream out for help—help from my angel, for I knew no human would find me there.
My throat was raw as I tried to scream out for help—help from my angel, for I knew no human would find me there.
My throat was raw as I tried to scream out for help—help from my angel, for I knew no human would find me there.
My throat was raw as I tried to scream out for help—help from my angel, for I knew no human would find me there.
My throat was raw as I tried to scream out for help—help from my angel, for I knew no human would find me there.
You stole his heart away, little girl. He would have done anything in the world for you. But what he did ended your life.
One by one, the people she had known disappeared, leaving their gardens, their houses, and their sorrow behind. Then, in the still water beneath the bridge, Adie found the one absence she had never learned to leave behind.