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r frame to avoid falling over. Dorian and his cousin, Bianca. They stare at me

lances through my head and I can't tell if i

off his knees and his cousin slips off the kitchen count

my voice come flat and hollow. There's an

nca scoffs. "Do you

aughs. "Oh you stupid fool." Her face twists into a wicked sne

rg

seizes up again. The cough that rips through my

But he steps back like I'm infested with a disease. H

four years, stares at m

e," I m

nd Bianca's waist,

e's dying," Bianc

hing. "It's about time. I was starting

?" I br

ing. You didn't think anyone can l

The hallway tilts but I c

by my hair. A scream tears through me as pain explodes in my back. My

oor. The love of my life and the woman he called cousin. I accepted him into my life. I br

tupid

fool

idn't think much of. LIke how the subtle glances and touches when I was

observes the frozen expression on my f

n leak from my e

. "And you fell right into his lap. Did the warm smile pull you in? Did y

fell for every one of my tricks. You wanted to be loved so badly and

to be with me in sickness and in health. All I find is a stranger.

I love

of you disgusts me, Aurora. I've never loved you. Ever since I started givin

eart on every side. It's clear then

isses her on the lips. For a moment they forget I lay dying and are lost in eac

a sings. She throws a dirty

y gaze, hazel eyes twinkling with hate. "Rot in hell,"

to work. My body is sinking into the floo

choking on it. Pain. So much pain. The realization tha

heart slows down, struggling

my life, then

ld muster, I pull out my phone. The

ng. "Still at the doctor

n my throat as

What's

through the embrace of

screams. "Whe

last word that

scream echo but don't reach me.

they crack open, Sylas is the

g silently. "Help is on the

e shakes me hard. "Don't! Please! Just a little longer.

f death settling around me

ve me," he repeats, beautiful

own him for most of my life and a part of me have

A silent protector, a comfortin

ceive such a

deserve to die like this. Dorian and Bianca do

d as I succumb to the darkness-