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you?”
     
    “It’s simple: I want you to forget
Esmeralda. I want you to forget ever having met her. Ever. It is
the bond between you and she that is ruining my plan, and I simply
will not have it anymore.”
     
    “If I don’t, temptress?” he glared at her.
“What will you do then?”
     
    Nadia smiled and the white ball in her hand
began to turn black. She began laughing when she saw that Esme was
trying to break free from her captors, unable to talk and managing
a small whimper. Emmanuel looked at his wife, saw her eyes filled
with sadness and fright, and then turned to the temptress. He
realized that the ball represented something, but he wasn’t
entirely sure what.
     
    “Stop. Whatever it is you’re doing, just
stop,” he stated and watched as the white began returning to the
ball. He looked to Esme, realizing that she was far more beautiful
than Nadia no matter how bad her hair was, no matter if she wore
many clothes while her subjugator wore nothing. He turned back to
Nadia. “I need to speak with my wife first, and I need her to
respond.”
     
    “Very well,” Nadia said and let the magic
balls disappear, then clapped her hands together over her head.
     
    The scenery around him changed and he
realized he was standing on a beach, and everything about him was
illumed by moonlight. He recognized the beach, remembering it as
the first place he’d brought Esme when she stated she didn’t know
how to swim. He’d taught her. It was only last summer.
     
    Emmanuel saw a woman clad in white at the
opposite end of the beach. She was coming towards him, her dress
floating along the breeze. He took a few steps towards her, feeling
his legs growing weary, and then he felt the need to run. She did
the same and they stopped only feet away.
     
    “We don’t have much time,” Esme said, her
very voice filling him with desire. She seemed to sense this and
looked at the ground. “I cannot let you risk the life of our
daughter for me. I am already dead to everyone, except for you. She
hasn’t begun living yet. I need you to take her with you.”
     
    “I’m not going to choose,” he said and felt
his heart break as he watched her bite her lip. “I love you both.
I’ll have you both.”
     
    “You can’t. She won’t let you,” she said and
tried to smile. Emmanuel watched tears escape her eyes and stepped
closer to her, feeling the warmth of her face as he wiped them
away. Esme nuzzled up to his hand with her cheek, wanting him as
much as he wanted her. She realized she couldn’t and pulled away.
“I need you to say this: ‘I wish for the life of my daughter; in
return, I will surrender every memory I have of Esmeralda Navy.’
I…I know it’ll be hard to say…but I need you to say it.”
     
    “I don’t understand what’s going on. I don’t
need to, as long as I have you,” he said as tears escaped his eyes.
He took a moment to regain his composure. “I need you to stay with
me.”
     
    She sniffled. “I wish I could. If you don’t
choose our daughter, you will walk away with nothing, and become an
empty shell. She needs you, her father. If anything, I need you to
understand that.”
     
    He nodded and took her hands in his, always
amazed by how delicate they were, and then looked sincerely into
her eyes. “No matter how alone and empty I become, I will seek you,
know you’re alive. I’ll see you in every ray of light, in every sky
of blue. I love you. That has to count for something in all of
infinity, doesn’t it?”
     
    “It does,” she said and more tears slipped
down her face. “So does a bath.”
     
    They surrendered to laughter and let tears
of happiness overcome their dour moods. He looked down at her and
she gazed up at him. They wanted to say something more than good
bye, but there was no time to say much else.
     
    “I’ll find you again,” he assured her. “I
won’t rest until you’re by my side. I promised you that you would
never escape me, and no