ela

ine for? I was the one who dusted his crib with silver shavings every night. I

static, but the hatred in my s

rr. "He's been mine since I was fourteen. H

dark took me was Leo sliding the warm silver

ly over my pooling blood. "Tell the Council the rogu

heart

corpse from

pile of black wool and platinum hair soaked in

c gray around the wound. My eyes were still open, frozen

close

gagement gown. "My poor baby... look at your cheek. We need an ice pack

voice was back to its sweet, fragile lilt, but through her eyelashes, her

ing thuds. "Clean shot, son. The pack owes you. If that creature had lived to

flat, professional, devoid of a single shred

ess tra

r, of sleeping under the same roof, discard

d above them. Moon Goddess, is this the destiny you carved for the uns

gainst a marble column, his face pale and twisted with humiliated malice. He walke

e starvation, my brother's slow death from silver poisoning, and now this fina

had shed for this family clicked

cond, the fabric

the golden gates of the a

imensional seam of reality that smelled of ozon

command seized my astral form, dr

't fig

etching every pore, every smirk, every drop of bl

ie. Cori.

on it. If there is a hell, I will

me

me

e my r

x snapped shut, and I fell through an e

eafening sound sh

BEEP

by the terrifying, unmistakab