Masuk~SARAH~Lisa was already sitting in our living room looking way too comfortable when I walked in, and the smile on her face told me everything before she even opened her mouth. Margaret was right beside her, trying so hard to look calm, her eyes snapping to me the second I came through the door like she was trying to figure out which way this was going to go. My mother w
~SARAH~She was barely conscious when I walked back in. The Omega maid was slumped against the wall of the holding room, her skin this gross grey, waxy color that only showed up on people who’d been running on pure stubbornness for way too long, her wrists still tied with silver cord that had carved angry red lines into her skin. Her eyes cracked open when she hear
~EVA~He had one hand gently resting on my belly, rubbing slow circles like he was already protecting our little girl. My heart was doing that stupid fluttery thing again. I was so gone for him. “You’re smiling so big right now,” he said softly, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear. His thumb brushed my cheek, and I leaned into his touch like I always
~NICHOLAS~I got off work with my tie already halfway undone and my brain still full of back to back meetings, but the second I stepped into the apartment, all of it just fell away.Eva was home.I dropped my keys, kicked off my
~MARGARET~Of all the streets in this city, of all the clinics tucked into it, of all the waiting rooms that could have swallowed my morning whole, this one had to be the stage for my worst moment.I kept my face void of fear, which deserved an award considering my heart was hammering so hard and also, to the fact that I couldn’t let Adan or anyone from the family find out the shameful act I had committed.
~SARAH~I rewound the footage three times just to make sure my eyes were not playing tricks on me, because what I was seeing was bold enough that part of my mind kept insisting I had mixed up what I was watching. An Omega maid, someone I only vaguely remembered from the household rotation, moving through the corridor outside the testing room, panic and fear all over her face as she looked around multiple times.
NICHOLASIt was pathetic how quickly I drove to a bar after my argument with Evangeline.I tried to pretend it didn’t bother me, I smiled at the chief when he asked why she left abruptly, I pretended to know nothing, but as soon as I left, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Perhaps I’d been a bit h
EVANGELINE“Eva, wait!”I ignored the sound of someone yelling my name and headed straight for the gate. I didn’t drive here, so I didn’t have a way to go back home, but I didn’t care. I just needed to get away from Nicholas as quickly as possible.It was like every single time I thought things wer
EVANGELINEThat night, I was shocked by how lonely I was.I hadn’t lived alone in my entire life. I lived with grandma, then Nicholas, and as soon as I was married, I lived with Alex. Being in a new house was a brand new feeling for me, and I was stunned by how silent and lonely it was.I could bar
EVANGELINEFor the first few minutes after he left, I couldn’t bring myself to speak.I stood there, staring at the door he disappeared through, and a distressed Margaret crouched on the ground. She hadn’t moved since he left either. I think we were both too shocked to process that happened.Hurrie







