“Open the door. Let me out!”Genesis screamed so hard her voice cracked on the final word, throat burning like fire. She didn’t care. Tears streamed down her face in relentless rivers, but she didn’t care. She only glared down at him, chest heaving, the gun trembling in her grip.“No.”The single word landed calm and final, a quiet guillotine.Kieran met her eyes. His own were red-rimmed, swimming with raw hurt. She saw it, the way pointing the gun at him carved pieces out of him. But all she felt was her own pain, sharp and endless: every lie, every wound reopening.“Let me go, Kieran. Let me go.” Her voice splintered on the last plea, turning soft, desperate.“No, I can’t, baby.”She shook her head violently. “Don’t call me that. Your love is torture. Is this how you love me? Lie to me one second, then hold me the next like nothing happened?”Kieran closed his eyes for a second, then opened them again, softer. “I love you so much, my princess. So much that if you pulled that trigger
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