Should I just take you instead?
If I cannot have your heart, should I make your body completely mine?
Shall I declare before all people that you now belong to me, and lock you away in a bedroom so you can never escape, for the rest of your life?
***
Her parents were brutally slaughtered by rebels who called themselves revolutionaries.
They were condemned as parasites rotting the nation with evil.
The rebels claimed it was the will of God and the justice of the world.
Rochelle Kotov, the sole survivor, stowed away on a passenger ship bound for Castiya.
There, she came face to face with Yevgeny—a man who bore the exact same face as the one who had murdered her parents.
“I will never love you, Yevgeny.”
