Melomiri

Her Bullet Was My Final Payday

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In the end, during that final mission, Regina didn't hesitate. She pulled the trigger to save the man who had always been the ghost in our relationship—her "one who got away"—and the bullet tore right through me. She knew. She knew I had the Protocol backing me up. To her, my death was nothing more than a temporary glitch, a brief nap before the reboot. For three days, she stayed by Becket’s side, nursing him, comforting him, erasing me from her mind as if I’d never existed. By the time she finally remembered I was a person who actually occupied space in her life, she wasn't greeted by a…

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