Chapter 39

Alina: Erick wasn’t done yet. “Tell me why you care, Alina?” He sounded dead serious, prepared to peel away every layer of my defence. “You’ve kept in so much for so long. Let it out. Tell me why you care. Tell me why you’re ready to forgive me so easily after everything I did to you? Tell me, damn it!” It was like a floodgate being opened. “I don’t want to feel anything towards you, not even hate. Because what you did to me? No amount of punishment can ever give me back what I lost, and I’m not talking about my virginity.” His face paled at every word I spoke. “You took away from me my choice, my free will, and at one point, even my will to live—” “Don’t—” he interjected, but I didn’t stop. I wasn’t done yet. He wanted the truth, so I’ll give it to him “I kept on living because my father needed me. I was all he had left. Do you have any idea how many times I tried to end my life? How many times I came close to dying? I thought the pain would never end... but then, things started to fa