In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything. ” “No, you haven’t. ” His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. “Just relax and focus. " “His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.