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The bomb beckoned a ringing in the wake of silence, and he couldn't discern the words, much less fathom the ultimatum. The cruelty of it evaded him for a moment until it didn't. Force a man who had lost so much to choose between two different versions of reality. Push him to fucking cope with his decision in the aftermath of it all.
Still, the question hung heavy like radioactive fallout, and the sickness spread to his mind. Like a fever dream, Maria smiled down at him, surrounded by forget-me-nots, and spoke sweet nothings he couldn't hear. Then the flowers wilted away, and beneath them were the bodies of hundreds. Naked men and women riddled with bullets, and his sweet Maria, once tethered to a breathing machine while she slept, now laid ethereal among the rest. Her hair spread out like a halo behind her head.
Misery had always been his bittersweet mistress. Regardless of where he went, she clung to him like a sticky affair.
Maria was dead, and her Grace was not. What the fuck was there to choose? The audacity to propose such an ultimatum drove him mad. But the question remained unanswered, and he had yet to choose.
A second chance with Her Grace, or allow Maria to have her second chance?
Even if he wanted it, such a reality couldn't exist. Despite how fucked his supposed memories were, he knew, deep down, Maria wouldn't allow it.
Her Grace, a spitfire princess, soon to be anointed Queen, brought the goodness he knew Maria always dreamt.
Shadow's heart shattered with the projectile force of an atomic bomb, and he could feel the shards digging inside him.