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one could see us, she'd steal a kiss from me or draw me away to some hidden place. I'd stopped caring about the experiments or anything as long as I knew she'd come to visit me. She was my light in all the darkness. I would have never believed a girl would be willing to risk getting the disease, but somehow she was. She was special.
    My heart was thudding loudly in my chest when the door of the room opened. Thea appeared in the doorway, looking like a goddess. Her face was serious, and she played her role of a detached nurse perfectly. We couldn't let anyone know about us because she would get in trouble or lose her job for getting close to me. I didn't really care what they'd do to me if our secret was revealed, but I didn't know how I would survive being away from Thea.
    She unlocked my chains and let me up, supposedly to take me to my bathroom break. Once we were out of the sight of cameras, she pulled me into one of the empty rooms. But instead of throwing herself at me, kissing me and trying to rip my clothes to shreds like she usually did, this time she turned her back to me and strolled to the bed.
    "Is something wrong?" I asked in confusion.
    "I can't do this anymore." She sat on the bed and looked up at me, her face grave.
    "What are you talking about?" I didn't dare to go closer to her. There was something in her blue eyes that was cold and unfamiliar.
    "I'm getting transferred to another lab."
    Suddenly it was hard to breathe and a knot formed in my throat. What was she saying? She couldn't leave me. Not now. She was the main reason I hadn't given up on my life already. "Why?" It was all I managed to say without my voice cracking.
    "What do you think?" She crossed her long legs and watched me expectantly. I didn't like the tone of her voice at all. It seemed like she was mocking me, but that didn't make any sense.
    I shrugged, trying to appear as nonchalant about it as she did. Thea was a good actress, so maybe she was doing her best to control her true emotions. Maybe it did hurt her to tell me she was leaving, but she didn't know how to deal with it. Maybe.
    "Oh, my poor, naive, little Adrian!" She laughed, curling her lip at me. "Did you really think I cared for you?"
    I felt as if someone had ripped my heart out and crushed it into pieces. She was lying. She had to be. But I should have known better, shouldn't I? A girl as beautiful as she wouldn't have fallen for a magic disease carrier. "At least you can't deny the sex was good." I didn't want her to know what she was doing to me with her words, so I kept my face blank.
    "Yes, it was good, but it was useless! You're useless," she yelled, glaring at me. "I slept with you to find out more about the disease, but it all led me to nothing. You didn't even lose fucking control of yourself!"
    "Would you prefer that I killed you?" I frowned, hardly believing what she was telling me.
    "Oh, please. You wouldn't have killed me. This was my job. Everything was monitored, but you never relaxed enough. I only had to push a button and the guards would be in the room." She reached for something in the pocket of her coat, but didn't take it out. She was warning me that she had the device with her right now and someone was outside ready to barge in if I attacked her. This was her last attempt to piss me off and force me to give in to the disease. The scientists had been trying to do that for weeks, but I never gave them what they wanted. I wouldn't give Thea what she wanted either.
    "You're crazy." No matter how much I wanted to freeze Thea to death, I knew I couldn't do it because that would be a win for her too.
    "Perhaps." She grinned, but her smile disappeared twenty seconds later. "But you're crazy if you think a girl could really like you." She stood up and strolled over to me, swinging her hips seductively. Stopping only a couple of inches from me, she got into my face. "Listen to me carefully, Adrian. No matter what you do, you will still be a carrier. No one will ever