Black Wings & Stolen Things (FRACTURED RHYMES) by Kayleigh King EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Kayleigh King
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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RIONACH
I was fifteen when I came to terms with the fact that I was never going to
be the center of anyone’s attention.
Second born and a girl.
Those are both traits that are deemed undesirable in my family’s eyes.
My parents’ priority will always be my brother. He’s the heir to the Moran
family empire and their goddamn golden child. There isn’t a single thing
that Tiernan can do wrong. Doesn’t matter what vile thing he does or says,
my parents’ rose-colored glasses will stay firmly in place when it comes to
their deranged man-child of a son. I don’t even want to talk about my
mother’s twisted relationship with him. If she could figure out a way to put
him back into her womb, I’m pretty sure she’d do it. It’s gross and makes
family holidays fucking weird.
And then there’s… me.
I got used to the blank look in my parents’ eyes when they stared at me.
More often than not, it felt more like they were staring straight through me
rather than at me. As if I wasn’t there at all.
For a long time, I fought hard for their attention. The twinge of pain in
my chest from those blank stares caused me to act out. My infamous
rebellious phase was short-lived and ended in disaster, but at the time I
didn’t care what kind of attention I was getting. Good or bad, attention was
attention, and that’s all I craved from them.
Looking back at my behavior, I’m embarrassed by my desperation. You
shouldn’t have to demand—beg for—attention from the people who are
supposed to love you the most. It was a tough pill to swallow as a teenager,
but as I’ve aged, the pain has faded and my fuck you attitude has grown.
I stopped begging for attention from my family—from everyone—and
found a way to be okay with their bland stares and general disinterest in me.
Like an actress playing a role, I can shift seamlessly into the silent, wellbehaved mobster daughter. What they see is a pleasant smile but, in my
mind, I’m flipping them all off and pounding against the invisible steel bars
that imprison me in this life.
The true version of myself, the one who enjoys standing a little too
close to train tracks and feels most alive in a room full of chaos is
something I keep tucked away. Safely out of everyone’s grasps. That side is
for me and me alone.
Even if there was someone who I could be myself
with, I don’t think I could ever trust them enough to not try and destroy that
side of me. Or destroy that sacred wild part of my soul.
I’d be lying if I said protecting that piece of me wasn’t a lonely task, but
sometimes it’s better to be lonely than to lose yourself completely.
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