Nickey backed toward the door. "Hope, whatever you think you're doing—""I'm not thinking. I'm executing. There's a difference." Hope stepped over Michael's remains without looking. "For five years I played the innocent child. The victim needing rescue. The daughter craving love. But that was never me. That was the costume I wore to make you compliant.""You're five years old. You can't possibly—""I'm five years old in body. Fifty in consciousness. They accelerated my mental development. Gave me decades of knowledge in months. I've been aware since conception. Watching. Learning. Planning. Everything you think you know about me is fiction."Trina moved in front of Nickey. Protective. "If you're so powerful, why wait? Why not take control years ago?""Because I needed you broken first. Needed you desperate. Needed you to love me so completely that you'd destroy yourselves trying to save me. And it worked. Look at you. Look at what you've become. Nickey murdered for me. You betrayed ev
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