His to Save

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I used to believe in happily ever afters until the man my mother married </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>stripped away my innocence piece by piece.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For years he kept me completely isolated locked away and out of sight. If not for my diary I'm not sure I would have survived his torment.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>two pink lines turn my world upside down</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> I know it's now or never-I have to escape before the monster down the hall learns my secret and destroys my only reason for living.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alone and on the run help comes from the last place I'd ever expect-</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>his son.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Atlas swears he's nothing like his father. He says he only wants to </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>protect me and my unborn baby.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Slowly but surely </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>he earns my trust and begins stitching me back together again</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and before I know it I find myself falling for him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But no matter how much he feels like home I can't shake the fear of what will happen if his father finds me. Because no amount of paper and ink will shield me from the past... </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>or him.</em></strong></p>