Whispers

€œYour daughter is special€

Special, that was an interesting word for it. More like broken. Broken and scared she was losing her mind. Or maybe she€d already lost it. Thoughts, images, ideas that had no business in the mind of a child raced through her brain, taking over her consciousness until all she could do was shut down and let them run. There was no room for her. Maybe there wasn€t really a €œher€ underneath all the noise. The only thing that tethered her to her body, to the here and now was the pain. Careful always to hide the marks, Natalie relied on her knife to feel alive.

Luka took the assignment to tutor Natalie reluctantly. In his Senior year, she was the last student he would have to work with before heading off to start the life his family had planned for him. The same one they wanted for his sister before she took her life.

Two broken souls, Luka and Natalie form a friendship that promises to heal them both until fate intervenes. Faced with a lie so great it threatens all Natalie has come to believe, she must make a choice: lie down and accept it or fight for those she loves.