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Prologue

Scarlett

No h of that, don’t you think?

There was just here Now Me Derek—the ether, even if he didn’t know it yet

He was going to break ether again And then this nightmare would be over Done Finished We could put our tumultuous pasts behind us and finally, ould be free to live

At least, that’s as supposed to happen

Things have a funny way of never turning out how they’re supposed to, don’t they?

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Another week had gone by Another week of lying here, staring at the ithout seeing it I couldn’t see it I couldn’t see anything but the horror that replayed over and over again in my head

When he held ainst one, but better I could believe life did exist somewhere outside that cell, but still, I couldn’t see it