I used to bully her. Now I own her. But she’s slipping through my fingers. She wants nothing to do with me, and I don’t know how to claim her without becoming exactly what she fears.
Failure is not an option, but the only solution to making her stay is monstrous. Then, she learns she’s not who she thought she was, and her very existence reopens a decades-long war.
Now, she’s being hunted on all sides. I should protect her, but instead, I’m the one who hurts her. I’m weak. Terribly weak. My mother was right to abandon me, and she should too. But I won’t let her.
She can fight me, she can hate me, but it won’t change anything. Because in the end, she’s mine to claim. When the dust settles, when the war is over… will there be anything left of us?
Or is Piper Day lost to me forever?
