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me, her br

side, my heart barely bea

d I play

ars. She was so perfect that every time I saw her, I had t

got out, and just like every other time, I was reminded of Master's ultima

t disobedience and set people on the right path, but Vesper was an angel, and every time he p

had betrayed Master had taken the edg

back. I'd tried to wash all the blood off as best as I could, but

ther and you too." She lifted her head, her mercury-gray eyes catching the light filt

ing and making it difficult to breathe. I clenched

ry time I saw her, I had the strangest feelings that made me feel as if I was going

ld be disappointed if he found out

my test results and pronounced that I was a psychopath. For the f

uth, I found I didn't care for it at all. Still, he had been the only God I knew, an

n I tortured people, all I felt was pleasure and liberation; it was like gettin

even the vibrancy of how I saw the world changed. It became bri

watched her for the next. If the day came that

stand there and stare at me!" She

got out quickly, moving b

was as if she thought I was g

ust look at her and know everything she was thinking or feeling. It was foreign because in our wor

are you st

a while. Also, there's no one close to my age except you, so it should be okay for us to

gh. Instead, it made her mo

you're creeping me out" S

, the corner of m

? I didn't want to leav

nsider helping you escape from h

she stopped, then shook her head, her soft features sharpening. "Damn it, why am I even talking to you?" she mutte

oved me harshly, her breath sho

ouched burned, the pain

elled, pointing to the doo

d I didn't like that

ked out of the room, shut

tood in front of the door with Vesper on

s an act of love and that control was only lost when one go

the suffocatin

w how to go about it. But I knew it was all a lie. Master had also said violence someti

h Vesper. I just wanted he

tapping gently on the door. "I even

" someone calle

ittle mistress. She thought no one knew, but I did, but I d

looking

lfway as I remembered Vesper saying that I had creeped her out. "I ju

er." She said an

orgot how to breathe as her lips curved in a

the vice of it twisting in my heart as I wat

ments ago, she'd pushed and glared at me like

hed my

o what was this awful feeli

balled in

turned to Ana and nodded, the sma

it so much it felt

y with Ana, the urge for may

it. I couldn't b

oing to h