Valerie

I closed my eyes, bracing myself for the impact. The pain.

Was this going to be my end? Was history going to repeat itself?

All this time, avoiding everything all to end up like this. Things being different but the same.

Maybe I shouldn't have egged her on. I should have been softer. Begged and pleaded for my life. If not for anything else, for the sake of my child.

But I hadn't. And if time was turned I probably wouldn't. Not after everything I'd heard.

How ironic it was that I'd ...