Order of Scorpions

by Ivy Asher

“I like the instant it dawns on someone that they can’t beat me. The look in their eyes when it happens is…glorious,”

I had no idea how hard it would be to simply live. To choose a life and figure out what makes you happy. I don’t think I’ve ever said that word, let alone thought it might be within my grasp. It’s all so much more complex than I ever thought it would be.

We also didn’t know who the girl chained in Dorsin’s office would become, what she would mean to us some day. How could we? She wasn’t who she is now, and it’s because of who she is now that she’s ours. I equally hate and respect what she’s been through, but I can’t help feeling that in some way it all needed to happen just as it has.