ssful architect, but none of that mattered now. The streetlights cast a harsh, yellow glow on his pale sk

from the small cro

, isn' t it? T

is life away for t

everyone knew it. She w

o end up like thi

fact, the final sentence in a story he no longer had to live. He had loved Olivia

Liam didn't recognize her at first. She knelt beside his body, her face unreadable in the dim

, her voice soft but clear. "I hope in

w, a fleeting acquaintance from a world a

ce tugging at his consciousness. The world dis

a scream trapp

He looked down and saw it wrapped in a bloody rag. A finger was

d to a chair. Across from him, also tied up, was Daniel. His

them, holding a bloo

ooked from Liam to Daniel, her gaze linge

?" she asked, her vo

its downward spiral. The kidnapping, the torture, the moment Olivia had to choose. He remembered thi

l, leaving Liam to his fate, only for him to be rescued b

desperate love, the years of pining, it all turned to ash. He saw her look at Daniel, her choic