’ Mercy?” Tyler repeated sarcastically. “When have you ever shown mercy?”

Vicky studied the blurred figure before her eyes and chuckled. “Mercy doesn’t solve any problem; it creates a problem… The world is cruel, and people are all born with an instinct to avoid what hurts them…so I wont show any mercy.”

She reminded herself repeatedly to not show mercy and repeat the same mistake, or her life would be hellish.

“You’ve always been great at retreating at the perfect timing,” he said, his voice sounding faint in her ears. “Or you wouldn’t have given up on me because of my family background, nor would I… We wouldn’t have… This is all your fault…”

Vicky was so drunk that she could barely hear what he was saying, but though she could not interpret all his words, she could tell the resentment and sorrow in the man’s tone. It almost sounded like she had wronged him in the past.

She recalled how upset Tyler would become whenever they talked about the past, and he would always say that she owed him.

Whenever she heard this, her heart would feel heavy, and she would be rendered speechless because she did not know what happened in the past.

Her ignorance irritated her with no end.

She held her head with a dazed look in her eyes. “I don’t remember…

and silence fell over the room as Vicky started to drift

as Vicky fell into a

Vicky woke up with a pounding

far too much wine, and the

out of

closed, and his

was wrapped around his

He came home?’ she

no memories of the night before and did not know when Tyler

just as cold as he was most

pajamas she was wearing were different from the ones she put on the night

sank as she lifted her pajamas to check her skin underneath, and she gasped and

off and Tyler immediately woke up, his eyes clear

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