Dark Hearts

When my dad died, I had no one left in this world so I was put into the system. I was left to hide my strange appearance all on my own. I've never looked like normal girls my age, but growing up as sheltered as I had, I hadn't known any different until it became a necessity to blend in. Now, years have passed and I'm on my own in college. No more abusive foster homes. No more being locked away in a room waiting for the monsters to come and play with me. I still hide behind baggy clothes, a wig, and some contacts, and it works for a while. No one seems to notice me—the frumpy student librarian, the girl who lives in a book at all times, getting lost in a world of my own imagination. That only lasts so long before they find me. The Dark Hearts. No one really knows who they are, only that they aren't to be messed with. Three terrible men find me. They hunt me. They've decided to keep me as their pet. According to them, they know who I am—what I am… But how can they know something that I've never even known?