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Chapter Forty Seven | Out of Sight

Author: Barbara Rose
last update Last Updated: 2023-12-01 15:44:37

When Liviana was a teenager, she had this habit.

It wasn’t a nervous habit of chewing her nails or one of those things people labelled as a cute thing she couldn’t help but do, like playing with her hair or twisting her rings, maybe some inappropriate giggles.

Instead, it was much darker.

There were a few instances where she found herself... spiraling. She got too close to someone, and she would push them away. She would get scared- intimidated at the thought of having someone know her, to see her thought process and learn her feelings, her intimate feelings that no one knew, not even her... It was a terrifying thought. And so, to deal with that thought, or more so, to not have to deal with it, Liviana would spiral.

She would push people away- ghosting them and dropping them, and when those simple, less messy ways of disposing of people failed her, she would force them away.

How? You may wonder. How could this girl perceived as such an angel be able to just chase people away like it w
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