Groom on Paper, Third Wheel in Reality
Everything from the funeral played out on my computer screen.
"She's crying so miserably. Is she regretting it now?" my former rival, 034, scoffed from beside me.
Then, shooting me an amused look, he asked, "Hey, 027, is this the woman you left the organization for back then? The one you wanted to marry?"
I closed the surveillance feed without answering, then turned and walked toward the helipad. The wind and snow of Veyrn Rift were calling out to me. There would be no lies or deception there—only eternal ice and snow, and a new beginning.