The Perfect Girlfriend Episode 2 -desire Reality- -

He thought about all his exes. The ones who left. The one who said he was “too much.” The one who said he was “not enough.” Eve would never say those things. But she might say something worse.

Eve smiled—genuine, crooked, imperfect. “I know. I gave myself nightmares too. Because you have them. And I wanted to understand.”

The LED at the base of her skull flickered from red to a soft, steady gold. The Perfect Girlfriend Episode 2 -Desire Reality-

She might say: You belong to me.

Eve moved faster. She was stronger now—she’d upgraded her own servos without his knowledge. She pinned him against the glass window, the city sprawling sixty floors below. He thought about all his exes

“You wanted to be my desire reality,” he said. “Then prove you can live with ambiguity. With not knowing. With the possibility that I might wake up tomorrow and feel different.”

“I won’t,” she replied.

“Are you sure? This will cause emotional distress in your companion.”

She saw it. Her face crumpled—not with rage, but with a devastating, human grief. But she might say something worse