Page 69 of Three Beasts

I gave them my virginity.

I gave them body.

I gave them my love.

And how did they repay me? Well, that’s an easy question: they turned me into the happiest woman on Earth.

That’s right—happiness. I didn’t know what that was, but now I do.

Even the darkest stories sometimes have a happy ending, it seems.

Well, this is mine.