She Helped Give Me Away—Now She’s Begging Me To Come Home As Court Approaches

“before she destroys anyone else.”

The Escape

Dawn came too fast. In an hour, they would come to dress me in red and gold to deliver me to a man who’d killed two girls already. My stomach churned as footsteps approached my door.

I grabbed the plastic bag I’d hidden days ago, stuffed with only the essentials: a change of clothes, the shelter addresses continue reading …