everFor the first time since this whole thing started, she saw something that might have been a c***k in his confidence. Just an instant of hesitation, and then he was all bravado and bluster again. “Same old Melissa,” he said. “Still looking down her nose at everyone around her.”
“You really don"t get it, do you?” she spat. “I never thought I was better than you, Aiden! You were the one who was obsessed with Bonding a symbiont, not me! I didn"t leave you, Aiden; you pushed me away. And now you think I"m gonna swoon and fall into your arms because suddenly you can Bend space-time? As if that mattered to me at all? I never thought I was better than you, but you know what? I do now. Because only a miserable excuse for a human being would ever work for a monster like Slade. So, tell me, Aide
