“You don’t have to die.” Charlie pressed a wad of linen around Eve’s shoulder, stanching the blood. “Eve, you don’t have to.” Have to? Eve wanted to.
Fun fact: my original plan was to kill Eve off in the final confrontation—she would take down her enemy, but die herself in doing so. But around the time I hit the 85% mark in writing my rough draft, that ending started to feel all wrong. Eve was still telling me she wanted to die, but it's a novelist's job NOT to give our characters what they want—instead, we give them what is good for them! So I took a deep breath, changed up my entire third act, and had Eve survive the shoot-out in Grasse to start rebuilding her shattered life.
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