ONYX
I imagined so many times how this would happen–how I would meet my best creation and what she would be like. But this… this wasn’t it.
Melody was always special to me. I put as much of myself inside of her as was possible. She was my first. To me, she was imperfectly perfect in every way and still the one I used as a mould to shape all my other female leads. They were all different in many ways, but, on the inside, they always had at least some of her qualities – honesty, sincerity, bravery, loyalty, empathy, confidence, intelligence and so on. I could talk about her for hours even now.
And here she was, plastered all over the ground at my feet and gazing up at Ruhn.
A lump formed in my throat without me realising it.
Was this it?
This wasn’t how they were supposed to meet. He
