Chapter 297 An Impossible Choice

• I leave Neil at the base of the stairs. He’s not ready for sleep yet and plans on going into the kitchen for a snack. He invites me, but I’m not hungry. I’d rather go lay down for a while and think about what to do.
• It’s not that I mind spending the night with Neil. Far from it. But I have a hard time accepting his words that this might be our last night alive. It feel so… morbid.
• I don’t want the beauty of our intimacy to be tainted with the darkness of looming death.