AUTHOR NOTE: If you enjoy music while you're reading, try the song "Never Ending Nightmare" by Citizen Soldier while reading this chapter. It's what I listened to while writing!
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RIKA
She couldn't do this. She couldn't. These people were like her father—worse! He only threatened to kill people, these psychopaths actually did it!
Then, in trying to avoid Gar's gaze, her eyes fell on the two bodies on the floor, just feet from each other, and her stomach threatened to revolt.
How had she thought, just minutes before, that she wanted to be here? That these people made a safe place, a good place? How had she stood in defense of them?
She was surrounded by them here—all so tall and so strong. And Gar the biggest of all, except perhaps for his father.
