Favourite Girl

She was taken at six.

By twenty, she has learned how to survive-how to stay quiet, stay useful, stay alive. In the London underworld, they call her the favourite. It sounds like protection. It isn't.

She watches everything. Learns the rules. Becomes exactly what they need her to be.

Until the night she chooses something else.

Sixteen girls escape.

She doesn't.

A year later, she gets out.

But freedom is not safety. London is just another kind of maze, and the man who built her life is still watching.

Because men like him don't forget.

And this time, survival won't be enough.

Content warning: This story references themes that readers might find triggering, including f0rced and consensual drug use, s3xual assault, human traff1cking, f0rced pregnancies, r@pe, c@nnibalism and murd3r. I DO NOT CONDONE ANY OF THESE BEHAVIOURS NOR ARE THEY GLORIFIED IN ANY SENSE

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