Ruining Dahlia by C.R. Jane EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: C.R. Jane
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Romance
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Dahlia
It was dark.
Isn’t that how all these tales go?
Maybe everything had always been dark for me though, since the
moment I took my first breath as a baby. Always somber. Always sad.
An ache inside of me that the doctors and the medicine could never fix.
I laid in bed that night, listening to the sounds of the party that my
parents were throwing to celebrate some deal that The Firm had managed to
enter into.
There was a nightlight across the room, its light a beacon that I would
stare at every night until finally I drifted off to sleep.
I had always been scared of the dark. Which was a strange thing in itself
since I just confessed to living in it.
But ever since I could remember, I’d needed a light on.
At first, I’d been allowed to have the closet light on, but then my father
had insisted that “no child of his was going to be afraid of the dark,” and
from that moment on, it wasn’t allowed. He’d gone so far as to unscrew my
lightbulb at night so I could “get over my fears.” It was only my continual
screaming at night that got him to allow me a small nightlight. When I was
away at school, I always kept the light on in my room, but here I was, back
home on holiday, the nightlight my only saving grace.
A small creak sounded in the room. I flinched at the noise, my eyes
desperately searching the darkness to see what monster was waiting in the
dark corners of my room. I watched in terror as the door to my closet
inched open, the sound of its creaking scraping down my spine, and a
massive form stepped out from its depths.
I opened my mouth to scream, just praying that the music wasn’t too
loud and that someone would be able to hear me before it was too late.
“It’s just me, pet,” my uncle’s voice whispered in the darkness.
I trembled beneath my blankets, sliding farther away from him until I
hit the wall, because I knew even at eight there was no good reason for my
uncle to be hiding in my closet.
His footsteps were soft as he ambled towards me, his features becoming
clear as he walked into the nightlight’s purvey.
“Please get out,” I hoarsely begged, not sure what to do. My Uncle
Robert was my father’s right hand. A skilled killer whose name was
synonymous with The Firm.
My father would never believe me over him.
“Don’t be afraid, Dahlia,” he whispered as he reached my bed.
I whimpered and pulled the covers up closer to my chin.
I cried when he slid into the bed with me, his hands traveling over my
skin.
I shattered into a million pieces when he first stroked his finger across
my knickers. The darkness that lived inside me spread through my veins,
until any light that had been trying to survive was extinguished, leaving me
an empty husk.
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