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“I’m curious to get to the bottom of you, though. I want to see the darkest things you’re hiding. I want to know why the monsters like you so much.”
“I’ll leave your dark secrets alone if you leave mine buried,”
“And what is it you want me to leave buried, Bunny?”
“I’d have to
bury you if you dug up one of my secrets.”
He looks disheveled. He never looked this fucked up when I was his second.
“Do you know how to break a man? I mean really break him.”
“You make him trust you, make him need you, and then you take it all away.”
“Find his weakness, no matter what it may be and extinguish it.”
“Especially if it’s a person. Take away what he loves and you’ll break him irrevocably. You’re heartless, Gallows. That’s why I’m taking you under my wing. No one gets it quite like you and me.”
What if the man is already broken? What then?
“Think they’ll accept me now?”
“I can’t believe they didn’t to begin with.”
General Nolan knows he doesn’t need to worry about us though. Jenkins and me are the dream team. We don’t care. If a name comes up on a screen, that’s all it is. A name. We obey. We eliminate.
It’s her. Eyes bright against her dirt-smeared face. Her dark brown hair is pulled back into a loose braid. I want to run my thumb over her bottom lip and tell her she makes my chest ache when she looks at me so tenderly. I want to tell her that the nights I laid beside her were the only ones I slept peacefully in fucking years.
I want to tell her that I fucking missed her.
Why is she being nice to me? I cut her… I scarred her beautiful body. All I do is break things. But no matter how much I push her, she doesn’t stay down. Maybe things that are already fucked up can’t be ruined further. There has to
be a point where there’s nothing worse, right?
“Looks like I’m the only one who can be your ...
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“I guess I probably don’t have a say in the m...
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She really is a beautiful, dangerous thing, just as Jenkins said she was. A warning he gave us when he’d only just got her himself. Eren worked with him often, but I only remember how much he spoke of his new recruit. I had no idea she lived up to his words. A Riøt on my squad, I never thought I’d see the day.
I cannot let her die like he did.
I will not survive it.
“What will you do on the other side? You know, after you get your cards,”
“I’ll be dead before I get my cards, Bun. I can’t go back to normality, just like you can’t.”
“Not before I do. I’ve got your back. Have you forgotten? If you put yourself in
danger, you’ll have to watch me die first.” “You’re so fucking annoying,”
“Don’t let go,”
“Everyone can see us,” I whisper. “I don’t care.”
“You know, I thought I saw weakness in my brother when he was partnered with Abrahm.”
“But I saw raw vulnerability in him today.”
“Yes. He is the only one who doesn’t have the luxury of being human. He’s a heartless killing machine that we need on this next mission. You need to focus
on your position on the squad, Bunny. No more messing around. Got it?”
“Say it,” he commands. “Yes, Sergeant.”
His presence alone is enough to start a fire in my heart and it takes every ounce of my willpower to keep from looking over at him.
“Not your concern, Bun,” he whispers. I’ve missed him calling me that so fucking much.
“Bunny. You are to serve as Bones’ double in this mission,”
“What do you mean my double? She’s supposed to watch
my back from afar,
“Bunny will dress exactly like you and will be provided a matching mask and helmet set. You will move together at all times and follow orders without fail. Is that understood?”
“Where to start… We first suspected foul play when Abrahm was shot. The bullet he was hit with was unlike the rest in the raid. It was a bullet meant for Bones.”
“What kind of bullet?”
A black one.
“Traitors can be put down in two ways. In prison, fifty years after the crime, or when they choose to betray their comrades.”
Rats never seem to remember that snakes are hiding in the bird’s nest too.
“I told you everything in the infirmary. She’s the insurance, Bradshaw.”
“Without
her… I can’t keep you safe. You ...
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“She stays safe?” I press him. “We all do,”
“And you’re certain she can be trusted?”
