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Sensing this, readingme half over his chest Then he strokes my hair while I listen to the steady thuain

“You are the strongest woman I have ever known, outside of ood in a world of bad Hailey, let ood”

I start to sit up to look at hi a quick kiss on the top of my head

“Sleep, Hailey No ood Sleep on that”

I want to argue I want toI don’t know I just want to yell, throw so, and tell him, “If only it were that easy” Yet, I don’t Instead, I findto the beat of his heart as I drift into a sound and peaceful sleep that I have never before experienced in my entire life

Chapter Eleven

She is finally asleep Finally

As a child, I saw my mother cry I saw it a few ti, she froze up and told rew older, I no longer had to ask

By the age of seven, I re hi and looking like he wanted to escape the little shit box of a room where all three of us slept It was in the back corner of the apartment and the smallest roo it back there more than once, maybe twice

Mo she could protect us back there

In her weakestabout her life, her h

Hailey Holy fucking conundrum, Batman! This chick’s life has been a whole different level of hell than Mo like Momma’s, anyway