...Her presence was a tender ruse I love to fall for...

'Please don't be like this. Show me your real emotions, Zariah. Complete the talks we left behind. Say what you stopped.'

I thought, not removing my eyes from Zariah who was working with a ruthless gaze.

Discussing with David, her guard, about her plan of burning Axel's warehouse, the void in her tone was tensing me.

That was what I never wanted her to be; A puppet working on orders.

I never anticipated this would leave me at this stressful point. Why couldn't I accept this side of hers?

I was so confused between her real and fake emotions....