For three years they called me a freak—and I stayed silent—until they touched my little sister in front of everyone, and the truth I buried finally came out and changed everything.

perfectly with our position in the shadows. “You are stronger than you think you are, and I am not going to let you fall.” Without waiting for her fear to freeze her limbs, I lifted her entire body off the ground with an explosive burst of strength, projecting her upward toward the iron ladder.

Her feet found the bottom rung with a dull clang, her small continue reading …