s*x in death
"Ten lives. I waited ten lives for you to look at me with something other than fear, and now... you look at me like a stranger."
"Because you are a stranger," I countered. I stood up, my legs shaking, but the violet light in my eyes stayed steady. "Where are we? Is this Life Zero?"
Julian stood slowly, keeping his hands visible. He looked around the deserted beach. The jungle behind the sand was a wall of emerald green, humming with a frequency that made my teeth ache. This was the source of the Tenth Life. The place where the cycle could be broken—or restarted.