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Chapter 71

Author: Yazia Abioye
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-04 18:02:39

Raven's POV

Whoever said life was easy, lied. It's hard as fuck and sucks too, and the crazy thing is, nobody has the mind or gut to admit to it.

Everyone, I mean everyone likes to live in their little delusion. Everyone has a secret to keep and a story that needs to be told.

Hurt is everywhere, for both humans and shifters, we both practically drown in its essence.

Yet we all pretend like it doesn't exist or matter and we are fine, when deep down we decide ourselves.

But everything within us screams in agony and outrage.

Our soul pleads that we should be honest and true to ourselves at least once in our lives.

It begs for us to tell one person and the very second that we do that, everything becomes better.

But the moment that one person we became vulnerable to shatters everything we struggle to admit.

Then the world becomes nothing but emptiness and darkness.

For a moment, life isn't as hard as it seems, we only make It so.

“Jesus Raven!” Maya calls from the doorway, making me star
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