Hate Me Till You Love Me
The world wanted answers, but all Evelyn and Alexander had were ghosts.
They had escaped the underground inferno barely alive, crawling from the wreckage as the facility collapsed into the river. For three days, they moved through the city like fugitives, changing motels, burning documents, living off black coffee and fear. By the fourth morning, Evelyn woke to sunlight filtering through cracked blinds and the faint sound of seagulls outside. The world was still turning. Somehow, they were still breathing. But nothing felt right.
Alexander sat by the window, shirtless and bandaged, his dark hair damp with sweat. He hadn’t slept in days, she could tell from the shadowed crescents under his ey