Chapter Ten
Cass
I was startled awake, not opening my eyes. I didn’t want it to be real. They were gone and it was my fault. If I opened my eyes, it would make everything that had happened earlier real.
That I’d given myself to a monster. Traded my body for our safety, and he’d claimed that I was his. I swallowed hard. This was the punishment that I deserved for their deaths. Cora didn’t deserve this, she deserved happy and normal moments.
Instead, I’d messed up and now we were here.
Just this evening, we had a moment where we could pretend that we weren’t just struggling to survive. We’d been going to see a movie. A rare treat for us, I’d earned extra tips and I knew that my sister wanted to see the latest romantic comedy. It wasn’t what I would have picked, it had been fun though.
