Chapter 16: Grew Taller
One year.
Shelley marked time by the body's quiet architecture, her wrists extending past her sweater cuffs, her heels reaching the floor at the kitchen faucet, the way Vera's embraces fit differently. Less enveloping. More reciprocal.
She was six. In her previous life, she'd been dead for ten mo...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: Who Says Being Ordinary Is Bad?
2. Chapter 2: Postpartum Cow Care
3. Chapter 3: So You’re Over a Century Old?
4. Chapter 4: Only Spoiling Her?
5. Chapter 5: How Did They Choose That Name?
6. Chapter 6: Take One More Step
7. Chapter 7: I’ve Got You
8. Chapter 8: She Cares
9. Chapter 9: Unhinged
10. Chapter 10: None of Your Business
11. Chapter 11: Are You Sure You Want Mom to Know?
12. Chapter 12: Dear God, Who Did This?
13. Chapter 13: Lost Control
14. Chapter 14: Is Your Brain a Single-Celled Organism?
15. Chapter 15: The Poorhouse
16. Chapter 16: Grew Taller
17. Chapter 17: Didn’t See You Hold Back
18. Chapter 18: What Are You Afraid Of?
19. Chapter 19: Is Your Brain Waterlogged?
20. Chapter 20: Voldemort!
21. Chapter 21: Albino Hair
22. Chapter 22: Always Was a Mad Dog
23. Chapter 23: Princess Halo
24. Chapter 24: Midnight Temptation
25. Chapter 25: Who Is the Real Victim?
26. Chapter 26: I’ve Changed My Mind
27. Chapter 27: Castrate Him
28. Chapter 28: The Deal
29. Chapter 29: Not Just Striking, But Lethal
30. Chapter 30: The Real Young Master
31. Chapter 31: Wag Your Tail?
32. Chapter 32: The Family Is the Law
33. Chapter 33: A Thoroughgoing Madman!
34. Chapter 34: Ground into Meat Paste?
35. Chapter 35: Shot Full of Holes
36. Chapter 36: A Mad Dog’s Territory
37. Chapter 37: Some Kind of Mysterious Force?
38. Chapter 38: Butterfly Effect
39. Chapter 39: A Perfectly Closed Loop
40. Chapter 40: Protected Species
41. Chapter 41: Does Anyone in This Family Have a Normal Gene?!
42. Chapter 42: Miniature Edition
43. Chapter 43: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
44. Chapter 44: Why Does She Never Look at Him?
45. Chapter 45: I’m Losing My Damn Mind
46. Chapter 46: A Walking Giant Marshmallow
47. Chapter 47: Why the Hell Does This Feel Right?
48. Chapter 48: So Freaking Cool!
49. Chapter 49: Go Crack Some Walnuts
50. Chapter 50: Completely Illogical
51. Chapter 51: The Old Fox’s Man?
52. Chapter 52: Not Even the Old Man Can Save You!
53. Chapter 53: Scared Crazy?
54. Chapter 54: They’re All Liars!
55. Chapter 55: Who Should I Listen To?
56. Chapter 56: I Just Want to Be Good to You!
57. Chapter 57: Who’s Begging Whom?
58. Chapter 58: Guess Who I Am?
59. Chapter 59: A Bum?
60. Chapter 60: Nobody Touches Her!
61. Chapter 61: She Looks Familiar?
62. Chapter 62: Is the Security System Just for Show?
63. Chapter 63: It’s All True
64. Chapter 64: Tired of Living?
65. Chapter 65: Don’t Worry About Him
66. Chapter 66: Whose Trash Is Worth More?
67. Chapter 67: Stealing from Me
68. Chapter 68: Power?
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