Trigger Warning: This chapter contains experiences of abuse and s****l assault – nothing explicit, but please take care reading!
Sinclair
Don’t shift, don’t shift, don’t shift. I think manically. Ella needs you.
Listening to Ella recount her childhood always makes me furious, but this time is worse than all the others. I’ve suspected that Ella suffered terrible traumas for some time now, but before this night I’d been able to pacify my outrage with the hope that I’m wrong.
No longer.
As Ella speaks, I wonder how she could ever imagine herself weak. I can’t even stand to listen to her story, but she actually lived it. She sacrificed herself for her sister, and she survived things I can only imagine.
“When the matron realized it was me, she smiled so cruelly that my stomach turned –
