t, Leonard stood

et off his air of u

stare, his eye

still

s, Leonard could look down on me

of bed and padded baref

cross his luxurious sil

nytime soon-but

ched, as if some mem

regained his lo

I'm done with your suicide drama every few da

nard, but I hadn't realized how e

ife just for a cha

patted Leon

If you're still alive, why w

miliar pressure, but

ou

ck into bed, suddenl

a leash. If she pisses me off, I'l

a's name, Leonard's n

, gripping my s

rned so fiercely it thr

ing to me! Touch he

itation, a nameless a

what had happened between Leonard and m

the ease I had imagined never came-inst

hree years, I had t

n me over Nora, a dull pa

like the fe

hardened, "If you dare lay a fin

d's eyes told me that if I touch

-I had torn Leonard and

, I had staged suic

nk of killing the woman he loved

destroy the sinner wh

s three years from now-I might have gone pale at L

no longer

d no longer

yes filled Leonard's wit

hell do

uietly, a faint smil

as the sign that I w

, suddenly slapped me

gonna tal

lap told me one thing-hi

again when the metallic tast

vid red stark and grote

I thought. "If I don't take you d

before Nora. And down in hell,

o be an act, and Leonard clut

he tore at my clo

old self? Didn't you always want my child? Fine, I