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Trigger Warnings: Mentions of physical and verbal abuse towards women and children.

Alex could never be called a coward. He could be called a million other things, but Alex was not a coward.

The mimicry of a man above him always forgot that. A single look at his face brought Alex back to when he would hide under the covers and pray to Yoba that the menacing shadow that meant his father never appeared.

It rarely worked.