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, motivation, and joy after an hour an half of exercise. It was a gr

I wasn't sure if I made the right decision over choosing a personal de

led classes for women. I didn’t have a problem though—if I was trained

” I faked a grimace. The room quickly filled with laughers from sixteen women--battered wives,

iss except for a young woman. She was tense, distant

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have to tell me what she'd been going through. I’d seen many people like her. It fucking hurt me that as young as nineteen, she had to go thro

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Thank you.” She

pain and horror are so deep. But I made a promise a long

alk to, I am here, not only as your

ne. Really. But tha

e to help them, I needed to gain their trust. That was one of my goals. I wanted to help them, but there was al

just couldn't help it. It was in my nature. There was just a part of me that if I co

my grandmother took care of me, then a year after, she died—all the women in my life just died and left me helpless, and I cou

of water hit my skin which made my whole body shiver. It works. It m

to find two missed calls from Imogen. We grew up together as we passed from foster to foster homes. She

she picked up as if she

damn

name, but I thought it fit her. She had ten-size shoes and stood five feet and eleven

idn’t recognize me anymore.” There w

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cause I was about to leave, and I just stood there

for a sec, emo

when you told me dur

in the hell did she end up here? Or the right question was, what the hell was she doing in the

thing for her. I couldn’t get near her without thinking of someo

y time we bumped into one another, I ran away like my ass was on fire. Her exit had caused something terrible to me. I though

e jabbed me back from my thoughts. “Are you listeni

as a little

ly,” she

it was her? It’s b

Her name did a flutter down my belly

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it didn’t sound like I was inquiring abo

cuss it with you. I

e? It’s not that I can help her, can't I? Y

for her, Arrow.

to sate my curiosity, but the only person I considered family had no plan on to tell me. “

blind

ed. I shut my eyes closed, and suddenly her face sprung into my mind. Her big hazel eyes--those

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ng. The thin sheet was st

, and I would fucking let her clean my apartment for disturbing my sleep. At least, this time, it was not the same fuck

I strode toward the doo

unlocked the door and turned back to t

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llowed before I turned around. My world was just suspended. My eyes widened at the sight of th