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Shadows that Lurk in the Light: Chapter Thirty Seven:
Chapter Thirty Seven:
There were times when I felt like life was moving on, that things were getting better, but also moments when I felt absolutely frozen by my loss. The hardest part was not losing my ability to walk, it was losing the time I had lost being angry at our parents for leaving us, when they hadn’t. I nearly lost my life to the same serial killer. However, I was alive, while he was locked away, where he belonged.
It’s okay to allow yourself to grieve, to feel sadness. I just don’t want that to be my constant state of being. I need to be strong, but there are times I just can’t be strong, it is then I must lean heavily on the Lord, something I should be doing anyway!
Although Deliah did her best to be strong as well, we were often reminded of all the things that had been lost, how far some had fallen.
It was about time the monster, whose name we knew by now, made an appearance, but I wasn’t going to call him that; a monster like that, who had dozens of lives on his hands, wasn’t worthy of a name.
The fact that we hadn’t heard from him didn’t put us at ease, he had escaped once, and it was looking more and more as though he had help from the inside, a guard had helped him escape from that, everyone was almost certain, but no one knew for…
