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Fading Reality | R. C. Noctem "i have to go. please, just let me go."
the memory of the tears that had glimmered in her eyes, of the way her lips had trembled and she had shaken like a leaf as she begged him lingered in his mind, etched onto the backs of his eyelids.
"i promise i won't tell anyone."
he wondered what was there to tell. what could she possibly tell the authorities? that the man she was married to, that the brilliant intellectual she slept with, was a monster? the devil himself wearing an angelic face?
it wasn't like they would believe her anyways.
but did it really matter, when all she had been hoping for was that he would understand? understand exactly what he was doing to her, to her heart, her mind, her body. her soul.
he'd been tearing her apart.
that thought broke the dam.
his knuckles turned white on the steering wheel as he brought the car to a skidding halt, tyres screeching at the sudden movement. tears brimmed at the rim of his eyelashes, catching on the edge of a jet strand before sliding down porcelain skin stained red.
she had no right. none at all to accuse him of being such ... of doing such ... of ruining her. he was her salvation. and she'd been too much of a fool to understand that.
he slid out of the sleek sedan, crisp shoes crunching over the gravel as he made his way around the car, to the trunk. as he clicked it open, the soft, muffled sounds of his pretty wife's cries reached his ears. he stared down into her fearful face; pupils blown wide in fright, golden skin pale and slick with cold sweat.
oh, she was utterly marvellous. it was a shame though that he had to get rid of her. she was truly the best he'd ever had.
butt here would always be others. and she knew she was always expendable.
"please, please don't do this. I promise I won't ever say anything again. please, I - I love you!" she croaked out desperately, clinging onto him for dear life as he cradled her against his chest, walking them over to the edge of the bridge. he blinked at her, before staring down into the seething, swirling foam of water that roared beneath them.
"oh, i know, darling," a sharp smile sliced over his lips, and then down she went, tumbling into the churning darkness below.
he whistled softly as he slid back into the car, dabbed at the blood seeping out of the cut on his cheekbone. dark eyes stared back at him in the rearview mirror and his reflection began to weep.
"why? why her? why can't you just leave me alone?!"
"shhh," he breathed, taking joy in the pain that swept over the chiselled features mirroring his own. "this was the deal."
ignoring the pleas that strummed through the silence, he gripped the steering wheel, driving the car down the smooth road, watching as the city flashed by.
"this reality will fade away for you soon enough."
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