I Sacrificed My Voice For You
Language: en
When we were six years old, the monsters who took us made a game of our survival. They told us one would be the voice, and the other would be the prop—a mute beggar to kneel on the city sidewalks and bleed sympathy from strangers. I dropped to the concrete, sobbing, begging them. "Please don't hurt him! Let me do it. I'll beg! I'll bring back so much money, I promise!" In the end, it was acid. It burned a fiery, agonizing trail down my throat, and from that day on, my voice was nothing but a graveyard of sound. The day the police finally pulled us from that dark basement, Cole held me. His…