Chapter 161

Scarlett’s POV

Silence settled in the car, thick and uncomfortable. No one spoke, no one dared. I preferred it this way. then yoires grated on me, reminders of everything I’d lost and everything they’d taken from me. I had no desire to reconnect or to forgive. Instead, I had my own pland, my own agenda. At the top of my har

was vengeance.

I could almost see their faces, the ones who had wronged me Timothy, Tasha, Stasia, Branca, the bearded man, David, all those who had spun lies, who had watched as I suffered. They had fed off my misery, turned their backs on my cries for help. Now, they would face the Vladislay they had molded me into:1 would become the monster they feared but only for a while. And once I was done, once I had cleared out the rot, maybe I could finally let go, must as Keith had urged me to. Maybe then, I could finally release this anger, shed the darkness.

I glanced at the road ahead, a vision of Redcape looming like a shadow in my mind. I would take back what was mine my territory, my freedom. I would sever every tie, end the farce of a marriage, free myself from every chain they’d forced upon me. The only thing that would remain between us would be the

bond I couldn’t discard, the bond that had marked me forever.

The thought of what I would do when I returned to Redcape filled me with a dark anticipation that stirred something deep within me. My magic surged, wild