<p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">My life has been full of half-truths tangled in lies-I'd been to hell and back more times than I could count.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">But nothing could have prepared me for the fear in her voice, and then the sight of that building going up in flames.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">After the way I treated her, the way I hurt her, I'd earned that pain back tenfold. I deserved to lose the only bit of light in my dark, twisted life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Neither of us have survived the suffering only to have it end this way and I refuse to believe that our time is done. It can't be. Because she was made for me-the only good thing that came out of my past. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">And the first chance I get, I'm going to make sure she knows exactly what she means to me.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">No more lies.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">No more pretending.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Just the raw, honest truth.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">I can't live without her and I'll spend the rest of my life proving to her that she belongs with me.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">That the life we were born into might have left us damaged, but it made us stronger.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">And when she claims her rightful place amongst us, I'll be by her side and together we will rule this reckless dynasty.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">But first we have to survive...</span></p>