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A mysterious ballerina dancing for me during the ravages of pain.
I questioned if she was real… until I saw her in the flesh.
My beautiful angelfinallywithin reach.
She’ll be mine at any cost necessary. Any price to be paid.
There’s no running from me. No hiding from my dominance.
Nothing will keep me from my angel.
Even a violent war between two rival mafia families.
I will have her, and only then will I know peace.
But what happens when my ballerina has a dark secret of her own?
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Prologue - Caelian
The pain remains.
Constant and unending.
’Til soon,everythingbecomes pain.
It torments my body day and night. Hot summers and the coldest winters. Whether many pills are swallowed down or none at all.
A profound kind of pain that knows no relief and offers no escape.
Only in my dreams.
The sharp, unbearable pain subsides. No longer does it feel like a thousand razors stab my chest. My desperate gasps for air turn into a dozing silence.
The world is in color again.
For the first time in my tortuous life, it’s like the heavens have opened up. I’m a monster being welcomed through the golden gates.
Soft clouds and twinkling music. I’m able to breathe, able to feel alive.
Even if it’s only in my dreams.
It’s whensheappears—the clouds part ways and she twirls into view, her arms in a perfect arc above her head. Her body floats and her feet glide with grace. Her every move mesmerizes me.
A sign from the heavens itself. An angel appearing to me.
Dark skin and darker hair. The sweetest eyes and lips that are destined for mine.
I reach out with hope beating in my cursed heart only to wake to clutching air.
It was just a dream. Dreams aren’t real. But the pain is.
The razors stab away with utmost cruelty ’til I’m bracing against the bed and tearing at my skin. Blood drips from my lips and dries under my fingernails. I heave for breath as if learning to work my lungs for the first time.
The days are numbered, but that grim reality serves as motivation. If it’s all coming to an end, then I decide the terms. I choose what will be my final moments.
Because anything is better than a life like this.
