Revenge After Death

"Stephie, this shower gel is nice. It lathers up really well." Steve remarked as he squeezed some onto the bath puff and started rubbing it in.

I was in the bathtub, one foot propped up outside, feeling embarrassed. "Can you please leave? My foot hurts, not my hands."

Ignoring my request, Steven began lathering foam onto my leg.

Blushing furiously, I covered my face, feeling like I was being treated like his favorite toy. "Steven, seriously, get out."

But Steven paid no attention, continuing to apply foam all over my body.

"Steven Lincoln!" I warned firmly, feeling the heat rise in my ears.

He stayed silent, leaning against my shoulder and rinsing my back with the showerhead.

"Stephie... Don't listen to them. You're not a fool. You're fine as you are, really... "Steven said softly, trying to comfort me. "They don't know anything. They're the ones who don't understand." "Wasn't the old me good enough?" I asked softly.

There was a brief moment of tension in Steven's body before he shook his head. "No, that's not it- "

"Then what is?" I pressed, looking at him.

He straightened up, avoiding my gaze. "You weren't happy, and I didn't know how to make you happy."

basic emotions. She had studied and imitated all

normal people would smile in a situation, she would smile along; if it was

with society. Agony, sadness, or even

happy either... "I felt like an idiot who couldn't

best for you." Steven looked at me seriously. "You chose to forget. You

feeling

to revert to my old self, would Steven

suddenly remembered something. "Peter and Aunty

him about Peter and Aunty Lois' plan to have Yasmin impersonate me, although I wasn't sure if they had succeeded. But I could finish, someone interrupted. "Sir, Yasmin is here to see you," Ewan announced,

was taken aback, feeling a

to see Steven,

was still unconscious, did she decide to come

see her," Steven

acting strange today. She asked me to pass this to you, saying that you'll agree to see her once

gave me a reassuring glance and

the surge

off under the shower, I stepped out of the bathtub, wrapping a

- it was a piece of paper with a

I didn't understand