A Simple Life (pt23)

Someone else had been her first and last friend. Emil therefore was not her friend. What he was… was the last thing she could cling to before he pushed her off into the wild seas. He was her last harbour. He was not safe (that had been Lorene) and he was not protecting her (that had been Alton). He just was.

Soon enough, Coleen would just be too. That was what immortality would give her. As the numbness crept back through her she realized this was how she would have to feel all the time. It no longer made her...