VENGEANCE AS CRUEL AS HIS LOVE
"I don't want anything. Not even the weight of a sandwich in my stomach. I need to be light. I need to be hollowed out. If I'm empty, there's nothing for his words to grab onto, nothing for his hatred to twist."
I looked at her, my best friend, her face etched with worry. "My strength isn't in a full stomach, Lucy. It's in here." I tapped my chest, right over my heart. "And it's been empty for a long, long time. Today, I'm going to use that emptiness as a shield. He can't break what's already broken and remade."
Lucy didn't try to hand me the plate again. She just set it down on the counter with a soft click. Her shoulders slumped in a sigh of surrender, but her eyes held mine, fierce and fu
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