Gemotions

He’d always been a collector, but this felt different. The novel described her life, detailing her hopes, her anxieties, her small triumphs. The protagonist, a woman named "Amelia," was remarkably similar to her, down to the way she drank her coffee.

He felt a possessive twitch in his fingers, a desire to protect this creation, this version of her, from the world. He wanted the manuscript, the story of her, all to himself. He hid it away in a locked drawer, the key now his precious possession.

He would be the only one who truly understood her. And, more importantly, the only one who knew her ending.