Eden only tore out her staples once over the next three days, and it was truly accidental despite whatever Zero thought. The second night, he sneaked in again and informed her in a deadpan voice that he could arrange for her to stay unconscious for her entire recovery period. Whether that meant he intended to knock her out repeatedly or beat her so hard that he made her slip into a short-lived coma, she didn’t know, but she was well aware he was capable of just such a thing. Both things.
Or was he? Physically, maybe. On paper, she was sure that he was capable of a great deal many things.
But maybe he was soft. Maybe he really had meant it when he told her ‘no women, no children’ - some principled, archaic holdover from a bygone era.
He had to have a weakness somewhere. And she really, r
