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Sneak pick in the book? I say yes.

“Only for you,” I murmure, brushing a strand of hair from her face. “Always for you.”

She looks so innocent, like she could break if I push my fingers a little in her skin. Her armour is slowly dropping leaving behind the fragile girl she is so desperately hiding deep inside. It will be such a shame once I am done with her. She is, indeed, a spectacular specimen.

An alarm shrieked in the room and her face crumpled into a mask of pure confusion, a look that, judging by her expression, was just adding to the mess already brewing in her brain.

“So this is when the pain begins?”

“No love, this is not about pain.” I say, brushing her arm with my fingers while my eyes follow the disaster I set on her skin” It’s dehumanization. It’s loneliness.”

The subtle tremor that runs through her body tells me everything I need to know. She doesn’t know. For the first time, she is truly lost.

“This is what it feels like to lose the last person who could’ve cared,” I whisper. “Now you have nobody. Not me. Not Alex. Not even your little Cat. You’re alone in this, and nobody will save you.”

A pause—long enough to let the words find bone.

“Survive.”