"Adrian, wake up." I looked down at him from above. There was no hatred in my eyes, only endless exhaustion. "I held you in the summer because if I didn't, you would wrap your snake tail around me and strangle me to death. I cooperated with you and catered to you only because I was trying to survive under you!"
"Do you think what you're doing now makes you noble?"
I stepped forward and pointed at my lower abdomen.
"Do you think that every time you filled me with those two monsters covered in backward-facing scales and fleshy spines, making me sob and beg you to stop, that was love? That was r**e! That was you venting the animal lust buried in the bones of a cold-blooded creature!
"Every time I lay in the hospital staring at the cold numbers on the vital-sign monitoring bracelet, I felt
