Cecilia couldn't believe the government had actually hidden her for a whole week.
Seven days with the suffocating isolation of being too important to wander freely, seven days of Cha SoHee's hovering and Lilyca's revelation jumpscares and Ivy Cassia's terrifying, sunshine-bright manipulation…
And then it was over.
The moment the world's governments realized that the talk about her online and offline was not going to die down, that every attempt to control the narrative only made the story grow larger and stranger and more beyond their grasp, they simply gave up.
The footage of the blonde goddess holding back the reservoir had been viewed more times than there were people on the planet, after all
There was no containing or managing this. There was only letting her go and hoping she remained benevolent.
When Damon saw her off at the facility's private exit, his eyes dropped immediately to her midsection.
