Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 34

I won her

I knelt to the ground laughing silently. My arms were bloody I think I had lost a tooth. I know I had a cracked rib and I was so excited.

I stood and hobbled out of the arena. Cea and Eva came forward to their men.

I made my way to her my b*dy aching and throbbing. I opened the door to her sweet wide wet eyes. She sobbed and ran forward to me her b*dy turning red with my blood.

She moved me to the couch and she sat beside me. We spoke no words but it felt like heaven.

She washed my face and arms. She cleaned my wounds and bandaged them. Her fingers traced over my skin and I unabashedly watched her for peace. I savored her kindness for me who had to hurt her family. I had hurt her and she was worried for me and healing me.

She finished wrapping up my chest and sniffled. “I have to go see my family,”

“Go,” I nodded to her.

Stay.

I watched her leave me for the second time that day but this time it felt different. I knew now what I would give for her I had been beaten and all I thought the whole time was of her.

It’s terrifying when there is someone you need with your whole being and every time you try you freeze because your are afraid.

“How can I still be afraid now? I’ve promised to try and she is still the one thing I am fearful of. *

I ran to the keep bad into the clinic. My brother lay passed out on tables as my mother and Cea cleaned Charlie and my dads wounds.

“Goddess be,” I turned away from them bile creeping up my b*dy.

He had done this…

“I can’t be upset they had all accepted this. He did this for me.

I breathed in and put my eyes stinging with the fact I had healed him before my flesh and blood. I felt gross and sickly with myself.

I turned and walked up to my father bowing my head and ready to beg for forgiveness.

“Do not feel guilty,” he commanded me.

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Chapter 34

But my end up. “Papa he hurt you and I..”

too

“Bu in your family whette, you have to choose him that’s how it thats sollong. It is a choice my darling. You

every day to have him.” He gave me a soft

thimit: he’s an ass,” Charles rolled his

grabbed the

she left quickly wrapped her in a hug and whispered

the dish in cold water and cleaned his fingers they were

the red on

“An-”

are you acting so weird?” I gave him

wanted to prove..myself,” He looked nervously around

not prove you are ready to

know it.”

and I wanted to ask what he meant but my

Over

he had, She looked over at

to get ready for the

tell what she was going to say to mi when we were alone but I knew

the goddess silently. We wane tip to my room and satt down where

don’t feel good about this,” she finally sand..

“Mama,” I started.

you, hut he is fractured. It is hard to start a relationship when one of the

is willing to do what it takes and I can sense his came the youth this situation is not one

to leave you now that I know he’s public al hurting you?” she whimpered.

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show you know, because you raised me, anthyou made me stronger than any kind of sadness. Even if he hurts me emiff there are challenges I

the years fade and I was a small child

looked at me. “I still wanna kill him,” she jokec.

my hair in an intricate four–stranded braid Sculled the

that went below my n*eckline. Then the cuffs. And finallyt tizenklets. These were to symbolize my tourney to Luna and how soon I would be bound in gold to him:

merhad it to welcome me before dinner tonight. They selected fighters and

cups and their plates to

me. I found it

walked out in my whiteddress and bare feet and the people were laughing and dancing and singing theppadisescof Grayson who stood withhenylbrothers Theo

cailertvinthessaw me. Time to

Grayson I felt like a china doll with all of them

chosen our fightersstoryou, Icon called

Matt, Brian, and

of champion and brand

putting. I did not find it pleasing to push a piece of hit metal into the

it was not much of a fight Mattwassalonwerthe other men and quickly had them out for the count. He had punched Lean once and he went dizzy, Arran put up a better fight but Matt was

syntindwasapresentimoon with a paw print next to it. I felt like puking as

he whispered. “I

sizzle made me llinch slightly.. let