An Echo of Darkness

You shouldn’t wear your mask. It could break, and you’ll need it again for something else.

The road to hell was paved in good intentions, and she consciously decided she was fine with hell.

Vincent put down his newspaper. God, they were all trying so hard to be normal. She didn’t have the heart to tell Vincent that the newspaper was upside down. He had probably just been staring at it, hoping he could pretend.

I hate parking garages,” she muttered. “Why?” he asked. “They tend to go boom.

Not when he knew that they were all fucking her. All of them. He could only imagine Thompson’s face if he’d said that. While the idea was humorous, it would also lead to one of the biggest controversies in the IMPO. It would be a disaster. He couldn’t wrap his head around it himself. The idea of her being with all five of them. What were they doing? Having orgies? It didn’t make a damn lick of sense to him, and didn’t fit the people on the team.