Captive Souls

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My job is to break Piper Matthews.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But to leave her breathing afterward.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An important distinction since I don't walk away from a job without blood on my hands.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's how I like it. How it needs to be.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm comfortable with death. Pain. Cruelty.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No conscience troubled me when I took Piper Matthews deep into the Appalachian woods intending on fracturing her mind destroying her.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I never imagined she would destroy me instead.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With her smile. Her laughter. Her forgiving heart that isn't mine to take.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The heart she gives me despite my blackened soul.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My mangled ruined heart beats only for her. And the feral beast inside of me will tear apart all those who think they can hurt her.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now my job is to take down the man who employed me to break her so <u>t</u>he could own her.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No one in this world will own Piper. No one will hurt her.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because that pleasure is reserved solely for me. </strong></p>