All The Lies

I thought love would rip my heart out.

I thought it would set me on fire.

Instead, it turned me into ice.

“You know,” I whisper softly, the broken sound of my voice nearly scratching my own ears.

“You can’t arrest the sheriff!”
“He attacked a federal agent,” Leonard says. “Just as they did.”
“I didn’t,” the one under him groans.
Leonard makes him cry out in pain as he tightens the cuffs more. “No, you tried to attack a defenseless woman.”
I really don’t like being called that. It’s rather insulting.