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“Demetrius, stop!”
He wouldn’t listen. The boy grabbed the nightstand that sat by his bed, tossing it with enough force to have it splinter as it collided with the concrete wall. He reached next for the headboard of his bed, yanking it viciously from the base. Slamming it to the ground, the boy shoved his foot in its middle before tugging on one end until it snapped in two.
It wasn’t enough.
None of it would be enough.
The rage he felt had no outlet but the inanimate features of his bedroom. When he was done breaking them, his sister would still be held captive, and the wedding would go on. The futility of his violence only served to further stroke the flames of his ire, provoking him to the very edges of his sanity.
Somewhere in the back of his mind, he could hear Jamie yelling for him to be done with the destruction, but he couldn’t stop. If not the furniture, he would have nowhere to discharge the excess of ill feel
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