Shattered by three, claimed by none
Every moment they spent together, every bond they formed, every smile Milo gave them, was another thread pulling me closer to the moment when the truth would unravel whether I was ready or not.
"Thank you for accepting," Vex said.
The word sounded strange coming from him, foreign. Vex did not thank people. He demanded, he analyzed, he corrected. He did not express gratitude.
It felt weird. Unsettling.
I followed him back to the lab. The room was cold, the lights dim, the equipment humming softly in the corners. The virus sat in its glass case, alive and pulsing, that purple mass moving like it had a heartbeat of its own. I stared at it and felt a chill run down my spine. That thing had kille
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