“Deception”, that was the first word that crossed Zhenzi's mind once the drug effects finally subsided enough for the splitting headache to appear instead… and give way to the unbearable need for more. So strong, that it made her existence ache.
Had she really been so blind not to see that this was the only possible outcome she could ever have?
No! She had been there, she had seen humanity reflected deep down in his eyes, had she not? Surely, it couldn't have been all an elaborate lie!
“Oh, but it was” – She bitterly scolded herself, wincing in pain and rolling half-dressed on the ground – “You just were so eager to believe otherwise!”
He had put on quite a convincing act, gaining her favor. That part was true. But she could see the falsity behind it now, in all those deliberate littl
