“Who would have thought my mother's cold husband would save me from bullies today? Not my stepfather...my parents separated and my mom remarried. I stay with dad and my mother's husband is the owner of the security company dad hired and now I'm stucked. Seeing the man you hate so much for destroying your family everyday wasn't something in my to-do list…”
Yakirah’s thoughts burned like fire in her skull as strong arms locked around her.
The concrete of the parking garage still scraped her palms where she had fallen.
Three of the men who had cornered her were already on the ground, groaning, their faces bloodied.
The fourth was being dragged away by two black-suited guards.
And above her, blocking out the fluorescent lights, stood the one man she had sworn never to have anything to
