Nicholai
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemmingway.
I smile. There she is, my perfect little dove. So strong, she’s always been so strong. She killed the boy, rid herself of her weakness, just like I knew she would. I see it, the exact moment when the light leaves her eyes. All the emotions that make us humans so weak, extinguished in the blink of an eye. Those wide violet eyes of hers look up at me. I stroke a strand of her white blonde hair back behind her ear.
“So perfect. You make me so proud.” She blinks slowly. “You are like the daughter I never had.” To watch her fight is like poetry, to see her kill is art, a dancer spinning her craft on the great stage. She will be exquisite. The perfect death for any man who might find himself on the wrong end of her gun. “From now on you will be Una Ivanov, my daughter in name.” I lean close and press my lips to her forehead. She tenses but makes no other move. “And your name will be whispered in fear, little dove.”
Yes. Innocent and beautiful and deadly. She will be that which men both covet and fear equally. My Oleander flower. A Kiss of death.
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