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Chapter 27
Corinna’s POV
Come with me.
A sweet smile played across my lips as the words drifted over me, my breath sighing out of my lungs as I snuggled deeper into my soft mattress, my hand reaching out across the sheets, searching.
The feeling of something wet made me recoil, my eyes flying open as I realized that this wasn’t my father’s house, that my mattress wasn’t soft at all but was lumpy and filled with so many uncomfortable springs that I woke up with bruises and there was no one beside me.
Oh, and the roof was leaking, creating a growing wet spot on my bed.
“Awesome,” I mumbled, sitting up and running a hand through my tangled hair, my dream drifting away in the light that streamed through the cracks in the plywood over my window.
Tears burned at the backs of my eyes, Flynn’s voice still in my head but getting fainter with every second that I was awake, every second reality was allowed to invade.
Firmly pushing away the regret that burned like acid through my heart, I planted my mask on my face, knowing that if I let myself wallow, let myself remember for too long, I’d start to think that things could be different.
There was nothing different for me, though.
And thinking about it was pointless.
I sat up, keeping my shoulders straight and my head held high, accepting that this room was a shithole without a blink. The window was boarded up and the hardwood floors were as lumpy and stained as the mattress I’d slept on. The hinges on the door were coming off, the wood rotting beneath the screws, mocking the deadbolt that had been installed. A small child could kick the thing in if they wanted to.
Lucky for me, no one had tried.
Mostly because I was Joey’s. Everyone who came through here knew it and no matter how drunk anyone got, they weren’t stupid enough to mess with me under his roof.
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