SCARRED - Part 4 (The SCARRED Series - Book 4) by Kylie Walker

Author:Kylie Walker [Walker, Kylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance
Publisher: Kylie Walker
Published: 2015-05-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“I’m sorry that you had to find out this way. I should have told you.”

Chloe felt guilty. If Samantha had known about the scars before she saw them, it wouldn’t have been so traumatic for her.

Samantha took her hand. “Please, don’t ever apologize to me again about any of this. I can’t imagine the horrors that you went through. The very thought of it feels like someone is reaching into my chest and crushing my heart in their bare hands.”

“Then we don’t have to talk about it,” Chloe said.

Samantha nodded and sat up straighter. “I think we do. I think that as horrifying and disgusting and heartbreaking as everything that happened to you must have been...it somehow made you become this strong, beautiful amazing woman that I very much want to know. I want to know everything about you. I have missed you every minute of every day for twenty-four years and I will thank God every minute of every hour of every day for the rest of my life that Derek found you and brought you back to us.”

“I’ve never thought about it that way...that it made me anything positive. All I’ve ever looked at or thought about was the negative...”

“That’s because no one should have to live that way baby girl. No one should have to live with...” Samantha choked up and it took her a few seconds to go on...“With monsters. Of course it made you think negatively about yourself. That’s a normal response. I feel sick and angry at just the thought of someone hurting you. I’ve loved you since the moment that I found out you were in my womb. I love you still today, and I never stopped in between even though I thought you were gone.”

Chloe opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out. She suddenly couldn’t breathe. The thoughts in her head were accelerating and firing off in ten different directions at once. Her heart was hammering inside of her chest and her whole body had begun to tremble again.

Samantha reached up and gently brushed a lock of hair out of her daughter’s face. Her touch was so gentle and filled with so much warmth. Once again, Chloe imagined what her life would had been like if she had been allowed to grow up here, with Samantha and Trevor. She would have had so many advantages in life and even if she had met Jesse and even if she had become involved in a relationship with him, the first time he hurt her she would have had someone to turn to.

Knowing that made her angry and sad and she alternated between wanting to cry and feeling like someone was sitting on her chest because it was just all too much. She finally stood up and went over to the window. Samantha sat quietly and watched as she threw it open and sucked in the fresh warm air. She made herself breathe in and breathe out slowly until the dizziness went away.

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