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“Rebel had asked Michael to save a girl’s skin only once. He had tried to fashion a leather jacket out of the hide but had failed miserably. So he made the remains into an ugly little leather doll he had given to Misty Dawn instead. When Misty discovered it was made out of a person, she shrieked and threw it out her bedroom window....”

Understandable

“He’d wrapped girls up in tape dozens of times, but he’d never been brazen enough to pull someone out of their home.”

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‘Rebel crouched in front of the hole, reached across it, and caught Michael by his chin. He squeezed hard. Michael’s freshly split lip cracked with a sizzle of pain and began to bleed again. “Does Misty turn you on?” he asked, his words spoken through clamped teeth. “You wanna sleep with your sister?”’

This fucked up family vs. the flowers in the attic family: who's more fucked up??

‘“I’m sorry,” he told her, then he hefted her onto his shoulders.

The next time he’d be alone with her they’d be down in the cellar.

The next time he’d see her, she’d be undeniably dead.’

Basement prisons are my favorite trope