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My heart freezes

Purian Rose turns his gaze back to us "No, Mr Fisher, I intend to break you down, piece by piece, until you’re begging me to kill you"

He sweeps out of the rooone, Natalie buries her face againstall over I hold her until she’s calmed down "Why can’t he just leave us alone?" she eventually says

"He’s trying to frighten us," I say, releasing her "But threatening ht he wants, then that’s what he’s going to get"

I stride over to the arched here Purian Rose had been just moments before I look out across the city, at the burned ruins of the houses bo the war, at the thousands of white crosses decorating the city ce us fros

The half-eaten apple rests on e, a dark reminder of his threats I toss it out of the

Natalie takes ht the as over," she says sadly

I press ainst mine, and I hold her like this for a while I don’t have the heart to tell her what I’un