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Surviving To Live — Chapter XXI — Illumination Book Chapters
I witnessed my mother’s skull open and watched her go mad before my eyes.



Her blue wall of silence was my defense. Then she changed her tune and threatened to take me to Gloryhope Place of Safety for Girls. She then remarked that I would feel right at home there because it was my family tradition.
If this was her weapon of fear, it wasn’t effective. I have beaten the crap out of the notorious and dangerous Don T’s daughter. Hadn’t it been for my brother’s deadly reputation, I would be dead before I could blink.
He vowed, ‘I’ll let this one slide,’ but he must still be under his chalice. Which I pray he stays under forever. I witnessed my mother’s skull open and watched her go mad before my eyes. I saw my brothers with enough illegal weapons to give each of them a hundred years in Gun Court.
Pointed a loaded gun at my brothers. I was carried over a wall wrapped in a sheet, bullets flying around me. I scaled said wall. I witnessed an officer of the Law attack and maim an innocent citizen who was coming to…