13 parts Ongoing Mature"Is that really it? Or are you just lying to yourself? This, Imara, is a wall you have built to keep yourself from the truth." He steps closer, and closer. My back touches the wall. "Yet in reality, you feel anything but strong." He drags his finger across my exposed collar bone.
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To be raised in such a place
To be taught the ways of life in that place
Was to
Make
A monster
It was all intentional. It was part of the plan all along, to raise these killing machines that were to be feared, never loved. Trained to kill anyone and anything they are ordered to. In this life there is no such thing as a family, no such things as friends. No, to have those, you need to love them. And there was no love in what they did to me.
When I reach for him- he isn't there. He isn't there because as much as I want things to change, they aren't going to. We will never be the people we used to. We- together- will never be how we used to.
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Imara lost her parents in a car accident, or that's what she was told. She was then moved into a family-owned orphanage, Alura, where she met the people who would become her family. Family, not by blood but by bond. It wasn't until Imara's fifteenth birthday that the truths about Alura were revealed. And Ares, Imara's lover, would be Imara's biggest heartbreak and betrayal of all.
Years later, Imara attempts to find Lebedev after fleeing from Alura while clinging to her last bit of sanity.
