“It’s…Asher.”

I gasped and quickly try to pull my hand away from him.

“No…no no!” I said moving further up my bed and making myself smaller.

“Emma…please..it’s okay. I won’t hurt you, I swear.” He said, his voice soft.

No wonder I didn’t recognize his voice. He hardly ever spoke to me and when he did his voice taunting and cold. His voice was now soft and kind, something I had never heard from him.

“What are you doing here? Why? To hurt me?” I asked pulling my legs closer to me, making myself as small as possible.

“No of course not! I wouldn’t hurt you.” He said, his voice sounded wounded.

have hurt me before. You let others hurt me…” I said a hint of anger in

He sighed yet again.

in so much pain

my

trust any of you? After everything, I can

out to

won’t let anyone else hurt you again either. I will not let you go back to that house, Emma. Your father has been hurting you…they

and

“Y–yes.”

there was no point in lying now. “How could they

was external scarring that concerned them, so they did an internal exam and found scarring there

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