HIS POISONOUS POSSESSION
"Is it the cold? Or are you finally realizing that there is no 'away' for you? Every gate you pass through, I am already there. I am the gate."
Ivy tried to pull back, her mind screaming that this was not the man she loved, but a hollowed-out version of him, a machine wearing his skin. But her body was a traitor. The scent of him—ozone, salt, and that dark, intoxicating musk—was a drug she had been addicted to for forty years of loops.
"You killed our daughter," she hissed, tears spilling over. "You let me believe she was real, and you gave me a doll."
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