Chapter 223

Chapter 223

“What if we had gone through the blood tie? What would have happened to me then?”

It was the question she replayed over and over, but she hadn’t once asked me until now.

“He would have broken your heart.” I keep my voice level and calm. Purposely keeping the annoyance from voice. He probably would have killed her too, but she doesn’t need to know that.

Her frown deepens and her eyes move to the closed door separating the kitchen from the hallway. “I hope whoever killed him, made his death quick.” 1

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She had this picture of him in her mind of the man he once was. I wanted to tell her the truth. To tell her that he was never that man and what a bad man he really was. I wanted to tell her about the kind of messed up situations he put himself in, long before he asked Cassandra to turn him. But I bury it down, letting her remember the tiny good things about him. 2