Chapter Forty-Six: Lost And Gone...
Erik fell to his knees before his love's casket with a strangled sob.
"Oh, Mon Coeur!" he wept, gently lifting the redhead's limp hand to his lips and pressing a tender kiss to each of her icy fingers.
"Forgive your wretched Erik! He should have protected you better! It should be him lying dead now! Not you... Never you..."
Erik's body shook with the force of his sobs as he hunched over the casket, weeping inconsolably into Christine's hair.
Suddenly, he felt something inside one of the pockets of his cloak.
Taking it out, he was surprised to see a familiar vial.
He had often thought of just giving up and ending it all during the years after the curse, and had even taken to carrying a small vial of poison on him at all times, but was never able bring himself to actually drink it.
Now, though...
Erik glanced down at the vial, then at Christine's lifeless body, then back down at the vial.
Then, his decision made, he uncorked the vial and swiftly raised it to his lips before he could change his mind.
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