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My stomach dropped as I watched the screen Persephone, her character, gated out of the dungeon at a critical oblins--tooour characters She was our healer and we had no way, except for my crappy heal spells, to survive

In seconds, our characters were dead, hovering as ghosts in the graveyard Heath heaved a long sigh "Well, that was excellent tihs

"I’m sorry," I whispered "I had no idea she’d take it that hard"

"Mia, I love you but solanced up at Adam, whose jaw had set at Heath’s words But he didn’t say anything I couldn’t tell whether he was agreeing with Heath or preparing to go to battle for reed "Maybe I just need to grow up"

"Doll, there isn’t a person alive who loves you more than I do And I don’t want you to be down on yourself I will talk to her She’ll be okay Just keep your strength up I wish I could be with you too after that"

I fell back againstmy eyes Only nine ed off and Adae to ask hi question onon your lap…did you not like that?"

He didn’t answer for a few long, heavy minutes Then, he cleared his throat "I liked that A little too much, probably"

I blinked That made "

He shifted next toslow, remember?"

"That was your idea, not mine"

Another beat of silence "True"

"So…ho is ‘slow’?’"

He took a deep breath and let it out "Maybe we could play it by ear…"

"So does thisout?"

He appeared very uncohed heavily and he smoothed his hand across my bare head, ainst ht I was fucking clueless And now that I was becoetthe people around me more than ever and yet because ofwas an island, all right But she was fucking lonely and dying to have sourines They were life-sized and animated, yet still made of metal They could only speak to me in the quietest of whispers yet it seemed they all spoke at once and I couldn’t hear the wind and storm all around s to tell s I needed to know for my own survival But I couldn’t hear

I woke up at two a up My mouth was dry,as theout of bed, I went to splash cold water on a pants even ht of freedo ruined by this taste of menopause I really needed that reminder that I was now as barren and lifeless inside as the , as my rejected advances toward Adam had indicated

I stumbled from the bathroo a thin tank top and paja in the still air of my room And I still had no idea how to open o back and toss inabout the certain doom that would be injected into ht before each round of cheined ithis next incarceration He knew exactly what hell was in store for him and he also knew that he was powerless to avoid it once the jury declared, "Guilty on all counts"

The IV injection would feel like the cold weight of manacles around my wrists and ankles The almost instant metallic taste in my mouth and dull headache would be the sounds of the jail door clanking shut, locking me in for days