The Scandalous Step Siblings: First Enemies, Then Lovers
They both thought love was an unnecessary, messy complication in the data that needed to be suppressed.
I knew better. Love wasn't a complication at all. When properly understood, love was the ultimate, most reliable piece of structural leverage in human history.
I looked back one last time at Anya as she was marched toward the sliding glass doors by three armed men. She was terrified, her body shaking from the cold and the sheer psychological weight of the revelation, but she was still holding Kai’s hand as if she could personally pull the life back into his veins. It was beautiful, in a tragic, artistic sort of way. A perfect, doomed romance.