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Sputter, sputter.

Crimson droplets trickled down his hand as he wiped the hot tears off his cheek with his shoulder.

Yet another perfectly good heart, wasted.

He tossed it aside and reached for another.

He wouldn't stop until it worked. Until he fixed this complication, this mess.

This...nightmare.

It wasn't supposed to be this way. This wasn't supposed to happen.

Not to his assistant, his friend.

Not his Olive.

He didn't care if it took him all night, come Hell or high water, he'd have her back...

No matter what the cost.