Hope
There's someone out there.
Or more than one.
I hear it, the sound of singing and humming.
My eyes snap open.
With my heart pounding, I swing my legs over the bed and stand quickly. My fingers move on instinct, brushing through my hair until it falls neatly down my back. I tug at the edge of the purple sleep shirt, trying to pull it lower.
Fate has always had a twisted sense of timing.
Since I was a kid, I knew I wasn't meant to stay the fragile, overprotected girl who ends up fighting for scraps of love from an uncle that that barely saw me.
Something was going to change, something would come for me when I least expected it.
I just didn't know it would start here. In my brother's fortress of a mansion.
The second my hand brushes the half-open glass door, movement catches my eye.
A dark figure slips inside.
I stumble back, clutching my chest as my heart nearly leaps out of it.
