━━━━━━ ╱ INTRODUCING. . . ▍Family Line ✷ SHATTER ME ▍
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"I want it to bemy fault," she whispered, her voice trembling with the weight of desperation. Tears welled up in her eyes, reflecting the shadows of her despair in the dimly lit room. "So I can fix it. I need it to be fault—I can bear it but they can't. I can bear one more beating!"
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As the eldest of her kin, Amara Anderson Warner bore the weight of shielding her siblings from harm and hate. She was their shield, their guardian angel, their protector. Absorbing the blows and the pain that wrangled. Her father, the source of their suffering and fear was her greatest foe, a monster to steer clear but she couldn't bear to watch her siblings suffer, so she took the hits, never one to buffer. Despite her sacrifice, she longed to flee from this family, this life, this misery. For the burden of protection weighed heavy on her soul and the desire for freedom consumed her whole.
