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“Astra Yao must die.”
In the silence after the command, Evelyn hears the instructions she’s been drip-fed over the years she has been at Astra’s side: “Degrade her. Make her die in infamy. Destroy any good reputation she has left.”
Evelyn would prefer a quiet knife in the night.
Evelyn is issued the kill order on Astra. Astra does not make it easy on her.
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Good, twisted stuff
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Having a premise of a superstar and her bodyguard/undercover assassin sent to kill her but ends up falling for her shouldn't be this interesting but it really is when the writer follows the natural conclusion of such a setup without shying away from the assassination part.
And the delicious part is, the superstar knows and still willingly flirts with very real danger.
“I’m like a kitten in your hands. So helpless and soft.”
“They used to drown stray kittens in my neighborhood when I grew up,” she says, running water over Astra’s head to rinse out the suds.
“How horrible,” Astra murmurs. “Should I be careful? Would you do that to me?”
Would she do that to you? More like she's currently doing that to you.
Evelyn kneels next to the tub on the hard cold tiles, wanting to grab Astra by her shoulders, wanting to warn her, to protect her, to cover her mouth and never let her speak again when she’s so careless like this, letting an assassin so close.
“It is always wise to be cautious around people, Miss Yao. You never know who might wish you harm.”
Astra meets Evelyn’s gaze, hard and opaque and mesmerizing, all at once, as she takes Evelyn’s soapy hand and closes it around her slender neck, holding them there and slipping under the water’s surface with a peculiar smile on her lips.
This last scene got me. Like literally I can't stop thinking about it. Why, why, why?
I'm so very normal about them right now.
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I don't go here but I love horror/angst and this reading experience felt like rotting. lovely <3
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i feel positively sick
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lr 2
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If Astra is disappointed, Evelyn can’t tell. All she sees is herself in the reflective dark lenses, warped and distorted.