Fifty-One

Parker's P.O.V.

Keeping Kaylee locked up in our room while I worked, was horrendous. Every day, I could feel her internal struggle to remain calm while she also felt like she was being imprisoned again. I tried my best to encourage her to be positive, but it was difficult fighting the demons and scars in her mind.

She was strong and put on a good front, but she was still healing mentally from everything that she had gone through over the past four years. That wasn't something that would just go away after only a few weeks of freedom. Being locked up again was a huge setback in her recovery.

In an attempt to keep her safe, I had been unintentionally hurting her, and she had been silently suffering because she didn't want to stress me out. It was selfish of me, but I had been taking advantage of the fact that she wasn't fighting me on this. I needed to keep her safe, and this was the only way I knew how to do that.

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