Chasing Dragonflies by Tee Smith

Author:Tee Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The truth was, he probably wasn't any good for Maddie. Not coming from where had been the past few years. She might have been locked away, but he had been through hell himself. Maybe two broken pieces couldn't fit together to make a whole. Maybe he would be doing her a favour if he just stayed away.

Chapter 12

Maddie

“I can't believe you did that! You are such an asshole,” she scorned, shaking her head in disbelief at her brother, when they were back in the yard.

“Oh I can,” Asha rolled her eyes.

Maddie glared at her, then shook her head, “I don't know what you see in him Asha, I really don't.”

“What? I apologised.” Xavier shrugged.

“Oh yeah, only because I am mad at you, not because your sorry. It's hardly an apology when you don't even mean it.”

She was fuming, how dare he! First Patrick, now Xavier. At this rate she would never find a boyfriend, as the men in her life thought it was okay to be scaring the ones she liked off.

“Look I didn't say he couldn't see you, I was just trying to point out the fact that you're a bit fragile at the moment.”

“Fragile!!” she yelled interrupting him. “You think I am fragile? I spent six fuckin' years locked up out the back there eating crap. Sometimes I went days without eating anything! I lived in my own crap. Did you know I actually didn't have running water for the first two years I was out there? One time I was sick for weeks, I vomited all over myself, all over my clothes, and he wouldn't let me have clean ones. I had to live in my own filth. If I pissed Dad off, he would beat me. You think I am fragile? Really Xavier?” Xavier's face turned ashen and he cringed with every new revelation. She knew she was hurting him but she carried on anyway.

“Did you know I cried myself to sleep every night for the longest time? Do you know who I had to love me all that time? All I had was me, Xavier. I thought my fiancé was dead. For all I knew you were dead. Mum? You never came looking for meand I was right there,” she spun on her heel pointing toward the back of the yard where the shed still stood that had held her prisoner for so long.

“I had a life once, a happy full life. I was about to get married, or have you forgotten?” She ran her fingers through her hair, wrapping them in the strands and tugging on it. “Do you know he hacked my hair off once? I dared ask for some shampoo to wash my hair and he held me down while he hacked it too my scalp....to my scalp Xavier.” She screamed at him, the pain of the past all flooding back in a torrent of emotion that she had kept locked away for so long.

“Do you know by the time Asha found

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