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✨EXCERPT: DARKEST OBSESSION by @authorevamorozova releasing June 23rd!
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"Day Four.
There’s no such thing as unexpected madness. This is only misinterpreted thinking.
Or at least that’s what I tell myself at 03:12 a.m., sitting on the floor in my bedroom, my back leaning against the edge of the bed, like a man who’s forgotten what bedrooms are for.
I haven’t turned off the lights in two days, justifying it by saying it’s for my security—what if Victoria comes back and tries to kill me? It’s for visibility—I need to be able to see her. But the bulb buzzes like a fucking reminder that I can’t even turn off the light because the darkness is another reminder of her, of the void she left behind.
My phone has 4 percent battery left, and its entire usage until now was watching her profile icon remain offline. I watch it stay gone until my eyes burn from not blinking. I know she won’t message, not while licking her wounds, but I refresh that fucking page anyway.
I try to write off my behavior as anything other than what it really is: data scraping, a professional habit. But I’m not charting her—I’m chasing her. And somewhere between the third restricted-unrestricted cycle and the moment I rewatched the camera footage from The Place for the eighth time, I realized something horrifying.
She isn’t another experiment.
She isn’t another subject.
She is mine.
In every sense of the word: the way she made me fantasize about her body, the way her brain became the most fascinating thing to study. She bled under my hands and survived. I had cracked her open and she still looked at me like I was her savior. I took the perfect woman, built her into the monster I always needed and then let her walk out the fucking door.
She is mine in the way fire belongs to the match that lit it, in the way weapons belong to the hand that forges them.
And now she is gone."
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