Mouse Hunt

Beautiful… like the sun. When I saw her, it was as if I’d been scalded with boiling water. The whole world shrank to a single point. Everything else faded—everyone I was with or wanted to be with—there was only her. Tatyana Petrovna. Tanechka. Mouse… A young teacher, a trainee at our school. A princess from a very rich family. She looks at me with contempt, like I’m trash. I’m not her match— in any world. Maybe it is, but I don’t care about that. You’ve got it, Mouse—I’ll hunt you down. And no matter what, I’ll get what I want.