Bad Wolf by Jo Raven

Author:Jo Raven [Raven, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A contemporary standalone bad boy next door romance
Published: 2018-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

A good talisman is one you have for yourself and offer freely to another.

The greatest talisman of them all is your heart.

Part One

“Fucking retard!” Nick backs me up against the lockers at school where everyone can see and hear. “Who has problems reading at the age of sixteen, huh? Only you, dumb bitch, making the whole class look stupid like you. You piece of shit.”

I cower and shudder, the words echoing in my ears, robbing me of my confidence and self-esteem. It’s not happening now, it was more than three years ago, and yet…

And yet the memory thunders through me, knocks about in my head like a living thing trying to get free. Even though I haven’t heard Nick’s voice since then, since my parents decided to take me out of the school where this was happening and move away.

Chewing on my lip, drawing on the tiny shock of pain, I fight the memory, wrestle it down and lock it away.

I’m okay. I will be.

Not that I haven’t thought of ending it—ending the dark crowding inside me, the self-doubt, the feeling I’m worth nothing.

But I’ve made it so far. Alive. Heart still beating, a voice in my mind telling me Nick was wrong. I am worth something. After all, I’m here and I have my art: my beads and strings to make jewelry. To create beauty. If nothing else, I’ve got this.

And the sad days, the calm days, they sift through my fingers like cool beads. I string them up and hang them around my neck, count them, measure them. Weigh them.

I do this to remind myself I survived. Survived the mindless hatred and violence that shaped my nightmares. That the string of days that is my life lies in my hands, and that it’s up to me to be happy.

Somehow, one day, I will.

~ Amber

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