“Cut it short enough he couldn’t do that again. He only let go after I stopped fighting, that moment right before I would’ve passed out.” Dara lifted one shoulder, dropped it down. So one night he grabbed me by the hair”-Dara tugged at that lock twisted round his finger, tugged until it hurt-“and he dragged me into the bathroom, and he held my head under in a sink of cold water until I couldn’t breathe. Eventually, he got sick of waiting for me to sober up. Leo’s gaze caught his in the mirror, his hands frozen with scissors still in grasp. It meant I was wasted by the time he got home.”
I’d open my first bottle around three in the afternoon. “When I was fifteen, I started getting drunk early. And Dara was tired of staying silent.ĭara wet his lips. He lifted his hand and slid chilly fingers into Dara’s shorn-short hair. The stupidest too.” That earned a broken sort of laugh from Noam. Victoria Lee Narrator Michael Crouch Audible release date MaLanguage English Publisher Brilliance Audio ASIN B07HYC2D4G Version Unabridged Program Type Audiobook See all details Read & Listen Switch back and forth between the Kindle book and listening to the Audible audiobook. “You-Noam, even if you didn’t have magic, you wouldn’t be powerless. “You aren’t powerless.” Dara’s voice wavered. The moment that followed was heavy and silent, thick enough between them Dara could’ve twisted it in his grasp like fabric. maybe I’m afraid of being powerless again.” He rubbed his thumb against the backs of Noam’s knuckles, and Noam said: “I can do something, now. Not until I got magic.” Noam’s hand slackened against Dara’s, but Dara didn’t try to pull away again. And there was never anything I could do about it. Maybe it’s because I’ve been so-my whole life, people do things to, they. what you said, in the bar the other night.
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