e boys that lived next to me had a very huge appetite for it. My apartment was tiny, the wallpapers were peeling and my rotten mattress laid miserably on the

en Lancaster was playing over and over again in my head. The way his eyes searched mine as though he was trying to know

rvive on it for a very long time since I only had myself to take care of, but something about the place made me feel like there was danger lurking around in the shadows.

the house. "You are not trash, Cassie. You are worth it." I said it to myself everyday, but I still did not believe. How co

to touch me and then I would be free. I closed my eyes, deciding to get some rest be

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. She was not weak, but there was something delicate about her, something that made me want to handle her with care. She did not look at me the way

h my fingertips as the beads of condensation slid down the glass. My reflection stared back at me in the window. I

d become a liability to them. That was all this business was about-rich people

a way that I could not explain. Thinking of different ways to end a life... it was something that I lived for and with t

as an encrypted message. "Client confirmed. Payment will be m

r life that would soon be taken. It has been over a decade and

oney helped me pay my workers very well and live a very comfortable life, but deep d

about my past? Why I cared about what she thought about me was something I wasn't ready to underst

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ed that would soon cause a fight to break out before half-time. I wiped the counter for the fifth time in less than t

didn't look up to check who had come it. I was busy attending to my regulars, calculating how many hours I had left till I could

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caster, and almost as though he could feel my prese