LOVE ME LIKE A CURSE
“And tomorrow, when you rise, you will feel only gratitude for your position here.
“Yes, sir.”
He smiled, satisfied. “Good. Leave me now.”
She gathered the file and walked away from the room in a daze.
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But the Elder did not return to his desk. He moved to the window, gazing down at the glittering city. Humans scurried like insects below, thousands of veins and pulses waiting to be bled.
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Claire would walk into D'Aragon Enterprises tomorrow pale, weary, and none the wiser. She would tell herself it was overtime. She would not question the hunger in her bones, the fog in her memory. And she would return again, willingly, when summoned.
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