The Orphan's Reckoning

d, until I found what I believed was sta

a "Prime Beneficiary," granted a perfe

fice and enduring agonizing "Feedback Dissonance" for her "

e moment a simulated car de

loe and Liam, her long-hidden lover,

hile Chloe callously admitted her love and injury were lies,

ogrammed existence, was merely a

, forcing me to kneel and crawl for a fe

my only remaining family, my kind surrogate grand

al, grief, and unbridled fury, I star

blind, so trusting, to th

ony I'd endured, were not my failing,

it all, pressing the self-deleti

ened within me, sharper than

y," I told them,

eeper for the brief time rem

s the very "perfect bond" they coveted, the one that h