Seeing her again made me feel like I could breathe again. Like the air that had been stuck inside me all these years was finally released.
She has changed so much. The hesitance and naivety that was once a part of her personality has disappeared. She has become confident and alluring. Her eyes are sharp, filled with cleverness that perhaps was always there. And more than that, she has settled into her skin.
When she staggered in that boardroom today, the color leaching from her face, I wanted to shove everybody aside to get to her.
“Please! Just kill me! Darian!”
“Darian, please! I’m sorry! I’m begging you!”
My ears suddenly echo with her screams, the cries I’ve never been able to forget. They still haunt me in my dreams, in my every waking moment. The broken look in her eyes, the des
