14:51 Mon, May 11 –
Chapter 229
Chapter 229
Selene
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Present Day
I smiled as I leaned back against the seat, my eyes locked on the figure ahead with amusement dancing across my face. My body looked completely relaxed, one leg crossed over the other, but anyone who truly knew me would understand that this smile was not born from joy. It was the kind of smile I wore when I was beyond angry, when everything around me had become so ridiculous that I found it entertaining instead of infuriating. I shouldn’t find this moment amusing. This was the scene where I had caught them bullying my people, treating Evelyn and Silas like they were nothing more than insects to be crushed. I shouldn’t be smiling. But I was, and that meant danger.
My lips stayed curled, my posture calm and elegant, yet my eyes had darkened dangerously, like two deep black holes ready to swallow anyone who dared meet my gaze. Inside my mind, Devourer chuckled with excitement.
“This is it! Was this what you meant when you said your enemies were not in the Crimson Pack? So they are here now, right in front of you.’
I didn’t respond to him, but Devourer kept going, clearly thrilled by the bloodlust he could feel radiating from me.
‘I can feel your bloodlust. You want everyone dead, don’t you? Especially that one that looks like the uglier version of you? You want her dead? Killing her would be fun. What should I turn into to kill her, Master? Just give me the go ahead. Her dirty blood soaking me would make me more powerful. A sword always grows stronger when it kills its master’s enemy.’
He was hyping me up, practically begging me to let him loose on Sienna. But I remained still. The entire garden had gone deathly silent. Everyone was frozen in place, staring at me as if they had seen a ghost. Especially Sienna. All the color had drained from her face. She looked like her soul had already left her body, as if she could see her life, her dreams, and all her carefully built power crashing down around her in that
very moment.
The words I had spoken in my past life echoed clearly in my ears, as fresh as the day I had screamed them.
“If I were ever given another chance, Adrian, and Sienna, I would make sure to become your worst nightmare. I’d take everything from you. I’d make your lives as miserable as you’ve made mine. I’d strip you bare until you had nothing left. And most of all, I’d make sure you never have the one thing you truly crave. I, Selene Bloodrose, promise you this. If I must make a deal with the devil himself, I will haunt you for the rest of your lives.”
It was happening.
I had truly become Sienna’s worst nightmare. And the best part? I hadn’t even started yet.
I made her think she had everything under her control, let her build her little kingdom of lies and power, and then, when I was ready, I came back to collect everything that didn’t even matter to me.
I smiled as I sat there, my mind calm even as Devourer’s excited voice rang inside my head.
14:51 Mon, May 11 –
Chapter 229
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‘You know what, Devourer, dying is painless. I would know. I have died ten times. I wasn’t even tired or weak from dying all those times. It was my ninth life that was the most painful out of everything. Because it was the day I lived long enough to realize just how cruel the world can be. So killing them? That would be nothing. Making them live and taking everything from them, showing them just how cruel the world can be, that is what I want. I want them to live through it. So Devourer, you will not kill them. Instead, you will protect them at all cost. Is that clear?’
Devourer didn’t say anything at first, but I could feel his body trembling with dark excitement before he finally answered, almost reverent. ‘Amazing… I have met the right master. I’m even scared of you. They are stupid for ever betraying you.’
I smiled faintly but cut him off from my mind, turning my attention back to the scene in front of me. Sienna was trembling so violently that she looked like she might collapse at any moment. She pointed a shaking finger at me and stuttered, “Y-you… how is this possible? How are you alive?”
I ignored her completely.
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