“All that slick shit you popping, all this yelling…all this poisonous energy…” She pulled her face away. He manipulated it back to him, as he looked down the bridge of his nose at her. “Stop. It ain’t you. It’s what I’ve turned you into. Go back to who you were. I love you in any form, but I’m not particularly fond of this one.” Alani calmed in his arms, but she closed her eyes in embarrassment. “Look at me.” She did. “She was before you,” Ethic stated, honestly. “Nobody since you.”
