DORA One minute, Jasper had pain in his eyes, and the next, his face was back to being unreadable, but then I was already spiralling. My vision kept flashing back and forth between the present and the past. One minute I am seeing Jasper, the next I am suddenly seeing my brother. The hospital room suddenly became my cell bathed in moonlight, and I remember my brother’s sadistic grin as he unbuckled his belt. “DORA!” I blinked back to reality and found myself trembling all over, sitting in a corner, hugging my knees to myself while Angel knelt in front of me, with tears in her eyes. “Look at me, Dora.” She softly held my face in her hands and sniffled. “You’re safe. I don’t know what they did to you, but no one, and I promise you in my honour, no one will ever hurt you again or force you to do what you don’t want to do. Okay?” I stared at her, barely able to hear my own thoughts above the sound of my heavy breathing. She nodded assuringly, prompting me to nod too. Did that me
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