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Wyn’s tears disappear. “Bash is not a what—he’s a who, and he’s the man I love!”
“You’re… in love with a man? My son is in love with a man who is a monster?!”
“Correction—your daughter is in love with a monster.”
“He is not my daughter!”
“Not according to Wyn, and she’s the only person here right now who matters.”
“Why am I even listening to you? Your ‘girlfriend’ is defiling everything our people stand for!”
Spittle flies from his lips, and Wyn flinches as if struck, his words flaying her open.
More tears track down her cheeks, and something inside of me cracks.
Wyn’s strong—so damn strong—and seeing her like this fractures the door where I hide all my darkness.
It leaks out, plunging the room into darkness as my Shadows writhe like serpents over the walls.
In an instant, screams fill the space, high-pitched and frantic as I feed Wyn’s ex and her father a taste of their own medicine.
I become their terror, morphing into a living nightmare—their nightmare.
And like the monster Wyn’s dad accused me of being, I revel in their terror.
They deserve all this and more for making Wyn shed even one single, damned tear.
“Mommy!”
Jake’s bloodcurdling cry pierces the air blackened with my smoky tendrils.
The small, frightened voice that cuts straight through the storm raging inside of me.
How could I forget about Jake?!
He stands there, eyes as big as saucers, staring at the nightmares I’ve unleashed.
Suddenly, the shadows dissolve into nothingness, the chaos evaporating as if it were never here as I call everything back into me.
And lock it up tight.
Reality crashes back, a cruel wave breaking over me as Jake runs to Wyn.
His tiny frame shakes as my mate attempts to soothe him.
My sawolkeh stares at me over his trembling form, her eyes wide with shock.
I hit the floor, my legs giving out. The weight of my own horror crushes me like a tangible force.
All I ever wanted was to be Jake’s hero, but now I’m nothing but the monster I swore I’d never be.
“S-sorry, so sorry,” I rasp, but the words feel as hollow as the hole in my heart.
What’s the point of apologizing when I’ve just shown Wyn the real me?
Everything in my world revolves around her and Jake, and then I go and do something so absolutely unforgivable like this.
My arms, desperate to wrap them in a protective embrace, are nothing more than heavy weights at my sides.
