The Burning Man
“There were two nurses and a doctor in the room with him, but he was alone. For the first time in seven long, tortured years, there was no one in his head but him.
Olivia was finally gone. Dead. She had to be. Her heat inside him had been extinguished, torn out by the roots. He had won. Slain the dragon and saved the world.
It should have been a relief, knowing that the demon girl was dead. He should have been elated, but he felt bereft and empty. Crushed beneath a depression so profound that he... could barely breathe. He hadn’t realized that she was his reason for living—until she was dead.
They should have died together. That’s how it was meant to be, their destiny. Yet here he was, alone and useless, like an old, broken Christmas decoration someone forgot to take down long after the holiday was over.
He reached out to the nurse, desperate to tell her about how much he missed Olivia and how unfair it was that she had died without him, but nothing came out of his mouth. Words seemed to elude him like skittering bugs under a lifted rock, leaving him mute and hopeless.MoreLess
Olivia was finally gone. Dead. She had to be. Her heat inside him had been extinguished, torn out by the roots. He had won. Slain the dragon and saved the world.
It should have been a relief, knowing that the demon girl was dead. He should have been elated, but he felt bereft and empty. Crushed beneath a depression so profound that he... could barely breathe. He hadn’t realized that she was his reason for living—until she was dead.
They should have died together. That’s how it was meant to be, their destiny. Yet here he was, alone and useless, like an old, broken Christmas decoration someone forgot to take down long after the holiday was over.
He reached out to the nurse, desperate to tell her about how much he missed Olivia and how unfair it was that she had died without him, but nothing came out of his mouth. Words seemed to elude him like skittering bugs under a lifted rock, leaving him mute and hopeless.MoreLess
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