“I guess it was about the next morning when I began to hear thoughts.” She smiled then and shook her head. “They were simple thoughts. So simple. He couldn’t think much at all, but they were the sweetest words I’d ever heard. Things like ‘Pretty’ and ‘Mine’ and ‘Love’. Just short words like that.”Emma took a shaky breath and let it out slowly. “Nobody had ever called me pretty before. Not until Sean. I was just the nerdy science girl that everyone liked to make fun of. Never the pretty girl. Sean not only saved me, but he gave me the one thing I’d never had before. He made me feel beautiful. And he kept me alive. We kept each other alive.”Her voice grew sad and quieter still. “Once Gibson figured out that we were not going to kill each other, and that we were only making each other stronger, he took me away. He locked me in that cage and we were never allowed to see each other again. They began testing on me next. It didn’t matter though. I could still hear Sean’s thoughts. I could
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