How To Love A Murderer.
Inside, coiled elegantly around a smooth branch, was a beautiful, slender corn snake, its scales like liquid amber and chestnut.
The boy…Lukas…who rarely smiled, felt a grin split his face.
It was a real, bright thing that made his mother pause in the doorway. He was transfixed.
“I’m naming it… Zhedya,” he announced, his eyes never leaving the creature.
“Is that even a real name?” his mother asked, her nose wrinkling slightly.
“It suits him. I just made it up, because it does,” Lukas replied, his tone leaving no room for argument.
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