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Chapter 22 - Not Goodbye

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Claire

They said old memories can get buried away with time, but when something triggering happens, those memories get awakened again.

'Claire stay here and don't move, big brother will protect you, okay?' My brother's voice had rang amidst flying gunshots.

'Brother, I'm scared.'

'I won't let anything happen to you.'

I was seven years old when it happened, I could remember an attack in our home, perhaps a robbery. Gunshots filled the air and my brother made me hide under the bed, I couldn't see anything going on, but an evil looking man heard my small sobs and came to grab me.

I'd cried and called for my brother but the evil man had taken me away, I'd been kidnapped.

The memories of what happened after are now lost to me, but I knew my brother got me back safely.

That feeling of safety was the same one I had in this moment when strong arms circled my body pulling me into a warm chest.

"I've got you, you're safe now Blue."

Those arms held me close even as the sound of guns fired in t
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