ZERO

I feel Anne’s warm body pressing into mine from behind and it’s like the dangerous daze breaks.

I felt her pain tugging at my heart from afar and I almost drowned in misery and regret. When I saw my father choking her, the desire to snap his neck raised its head.

Dread and anger became one. I was seeing red and I had lost control over myself.

I can’t bear the thought of Anne getting hurt. If I hadn’t left her here, she wouldn’t have to go through something like this.

“ D—Don’t do it. Please. Please, Zero. ” She pleads in her shaky voice. “ Leave him. ”

As if I was only waiting for her to say this to me, I release Gualterio. He falls to the ground, the shadows leaving his body and dispersing into thin air.

I blink to get rid of the black haziness as my hands instinctively wrap around Anne’s wrists. I almost killed my father because he hurt her. I don’t understand how I can lose control over the mere thought of seeing her in pain but I do. Always.

Anne breathes against my back, h