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“Where there was once a permanent scar, there’s now fresh damage, an error of skin shaped like an imperfect diamond. Through this altered skin a network of fine, intricate veins are perfectly visible. It looks almost like circuitry.
Bright.
Pulsing.
Electric blue.”
OMG HER ARMS SINCE THEY CAN’T PUT IT INTO HER BRAIN THEY PUT IT IN HER ARMS THATS WHY ITS TREMBLING BC THEIR CONTROLLING HER OMG

“I gasp.
Only then do I notice, deep in the dark behind my eyes, the steady blue pulse.
Like a cursor flashing, a familiar, sinister light strobes in the dark. I try to look closer and it clarifies instinctively, magnifying words into sharp focus. I stiffen.
A single message glows softly behind my eyes.
INSTALL ATION COMPLETE”

WTFFFF????? NOOOOO

“He looks pale and hollowed out. His dark hair is messy. His blue eyes are bright but his cotton shirt is a little rumpled, still hugging the contours of his powerful body. He looks soft and warm. Still absurdly gorgeous.
The heart monitor is screaming.”

HELP.

“I wonder how long I’ve been gone; how much time he might’ve spent here, in this strange place.
I am not in a hospital.
This is not a bed.”

“James.
An electric charge restarts my heart.
The monitor spikes.”

“You have to live,” I tell him, my voice breaking. Tears are burning my skin. “You live, or no one lives.”
“What?” He exhales so hard his chest caves in. “You can’t—Baby, you can’t say things like that to me. I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean—”
I’m shaking my head. “It means I care about you,” I say tightly. “So much.”
“You care about me?” he says, reaching for my face. “Rosabelle, I love you—”
AAAAAA

“I don’t even recognize myself anymore. When did this happen to me? When did I learn how to cry?
What has he done to me?”

“James will never understand what I have to do to save him. He’ll never accept that there’s only one way to infiltrate and destroy the Ark successfully.
He’ll never let me die for him.”

“I’ve lost my mind. I’m suddenly shaking with fear. This is why I can’t be around him. James makes me forget the real world. He makes me think I can actually lose myself in this fantasy.
I’m going home to die.”

NOOO

“Promise me,” he says, “that you will never intentionally put yourself in danger.”
“I stiffen. My heart stops.
His words are an ice bath.
“Promise me,” he says.”