Chapter 42 : Free to Be You and Me

Ash's POV "And you're sure there's no way out of this?" The ceiling above me was a mosaicked portraiture of the creation myth from the pre-purge. "I can't just say it to you right here in the house of the Goddess and call it a day?" Suzy's face shifted into view, the curtain of her long hair dangling over my face and blocking out anything that wasn't her. A few months ago, this would have been my idea of heaven. Just Suzy Sykes and not much else. Now with Suzy finally over me, I felt—well annoyed mostly. Maybe even angry. It was hard not to feel betrayed by the woman who'd been playing me for over six months. "Ash, I know I've thrown you quite the curveball, revealing the truth to you, but I think you would at least have a little more faith in me than that! We're friends after all!" "Friends don't keep secrets from friends, Suzy. Like how they can see the future for certain folks thanks to some divine favor and then mess with people's lives so the prediction w