Revenge After Death

Perhaps I was unsettled, so I couldn't sleep soundly. After all, I had nearly been raped and trafficked.

I wondered how the old Stephanie Carlson would have handled it if she had been in that situation. She probably would have attacked Howard and Bobby with the knife before handing them over to the police, wouldn't she?

Regardless, I wasn't that Stephanie anymore.

Sometimes, I couldn't help but wonder if I was the Stephanie Carlson whom Steven loved. If Steven still loved that Stephanie, then was I - who had lost those memories and personality - the person he loved?

If a person's character had changed, would they still be considered the same person?

"Stephie... I want you to live on, that's all I ask."

"Steve... You can't hold me back."

"Stephanie Carlson, please don't be so cruel to me."

"But I have no heart... "

I had a nightmare. In the dream, I kept hurting myself, trying to end my life with all kinds of methods. I was seeking an escape.

Steven chained me up, cried, and begged me not to continue. He even went as far as hurting himself in front of me, threatening to end his life alongside mine if I wouldn't stop hurting myself - I watched him coldly, without intervening.

to

escape from this... I'm a monster. I won't genuinely have feelings for you. Even if you were to die in front of me, I won't shed a tear for

dripping from his fingertips. After a

he left, consumed by deep

chest to ache terribly. I wanted to shout out to Steven, to stop him from hurting himself. "No... Steve,

nightmare, breathing heavily, sweat dripping from my forehead and saturating my

and whispered, "Stephie... did you have a

breathing heavily, and after a long

my memories, I wouldn't label it as love, though. "Please don't hurt yourself anymore, okay?" I said softly, gently touching the scars on his wrist

me. "Does it pain you

he was hoping for a certain response, as though he had been waiting

him the

"I held his wrist and whispered,

kissed my forehead excitedly and rolled around with me in

left speechless, finding his reaction was

ending up lying on

with one wrong move,

help but marvel at his