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Onemade

“Do it,” I whisper, closing my eyes

“It’s not the only way” He hesitates

“Do it” I grit my teeth

The needle pinches ertips My body starts to shake uncontrollably as Nikolai stands in front of in”

Chapter One

“It was thus rather the exacting nature of radation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the ood and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature” —Robert Louis Stevenson

Maksim

Present…

I clench ain

The blood is gone, just like the body

Izzy is sleeping next to ht next to her head, jolting her into chaos She looks calm

At peace

The opposite of the war I have insideto break free

He warned me

I should have listened

But I kne I had to do this; I knew that there was only one hich is why I went to Nikolai in the first place

He’s the only one who knohat happened that night and the ramifications of my choice since then

He’s the only one who can monitor what I’ve done He takes notes over every symptom, every emotion, and when the beast breaks free, I findinterest he has as he scribbles down notes then forces me to do the same

Nobody knows I’m sick, and I intend to keep it that way—to keep irl I love until death takes ht just be sooner rather than later

I always i, not just because I was in line to become the next Sinacore boss, one of the most powerful families in the Cosa Nostra

But because I don’t have the stomach for it