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But instead of doing any of those things, she had si was out of the ordinary Melted into his arms the moment he touched her Had lunch with hi for a date

It all felt too fucking nor

In the first few years that followed the cult's dismantlement, Raaf had felt hapless as he witnessed those he knew fro off a shelf

These were kids he had grown up with, and when he had gotten a little older, he had done his best to protect Raaf had thought he was saving his friends by bringing Ypeíko down, but in the first year alone he had found hi the funerals of six of his friends Two boys and four girls, all of the to find a place for themselves in the neorld they had been shoved to All of them made to feel that they would never fit in, and so they had decided to kill themselves to end their misery

By the second year, fourteen -teen Over a dozen lives that could have been saved, if the people around them had not made them feel that they needed to be normal in order to be loved

The world had made all of them believe that there could be no redemption for monsters eren't able to excise the darkness out of the time, Raaf had believed this, too He had believed there always had to be a choiceuntil her

His Sara now had spent days in his possession, and she had seen both the man and the ht to demand that he destroy the h she had never lived in his kind of darkness, his Sara, siht was true—-

And in the process, it had left Raaf tasting fear and uncertainty for the first time in years She had, for better or for worse, ain, and it was precisely because of that he found hi her at every turn

Tiain, he would show her more of his darkness, and with each instance, hope and despair would battle within hioodbut she never did

Tiain, he would tempt her with a chance to escape, but she never did

His Sara, without even trying, was pushing him to believe they could have a future, and as if that was not bad enough

His re she was doing without leaving his seat, and right now, instead of listening to her history professor's ad out a list of ter to do with any of her classes

Cold storage for what?