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Helena stood swaying, trying to feel something, but she still felt empty.
Alone. Everyone dead. Because they always died. She tried to save them, but in the end, they always died. Her life was a graveyard.
Her hand. Her left hand was burning. The ring. Her heart stalled. Kaine. He’d come back and found her gone. She’d told him she’d be waiting, and she wasn’t there. The ring burned again and again and again. He was looking for her. He’d come for her. He always did. But she could not think about it.
If Kaine found her, he’d understand. She could wait. Hold on. You promised you wouldn’t break.
She stood there, watching the space around her disappear into shadows. It was haunted after all. She had been the ghost.
There are, undoubtedly, still unexplored depths to the potential misery between us. Shall we endeavour to achieve all of it?”
“And I want you to know. If I didn’t, I’d wonder about everything. If our baby would get your eyes or mine. What kind of resonance they’d have. If they’d have any, or if they’d just get to be ordinary.” She was speaking quickly, because her throat was growing thick. “I’d wonder if they’d have hair like mine or if it would be straight like yours. If I have to go without you—if you—if you die—I’d want to tell them all about you.” She swallowed hard. “I’ve never gotten to tell anyone about you. I’d want someone to know what you were like.” He looked at her then.
“I love you. And I always will. Always.”
“I’m sorry—I’m sorry—I’m so sorry for everything I did to you,” he said, his voice hoarse and broken. “I love you. You left, and I’d never told you.”
“The only thing they understand is power and fear. There’s no reasoning with someone whose sense of entitlement is threatened.
She’d never been particularly prone to crying before, but the pregnancy seemed to rip it out of her.
Almost over now.”
“Love isn’t as pretty or pure as people like to think. There’s a darkness in it sometimes. Kaine and I go hand in hand. I made him who he is. I knew what that array meant when I saved him. If he’s a monster, then I’m his creator.”
