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“Are you sorry because you’re here, paying for your crimes, or were you sorry when you were breaking the bones in her body?” I ground out through clenched teeth.
Shadows sharpened, pressing into her skin like thousands of burning needles. She opened her mouth to scream, and another tendril of shadow snaked down, cutting her off.
Immeasurable pain silenced with no end in sight.
“You will speak to me, Jana. You will tell me what I want to know.” I walked toward her; my words spoken in a low, menacing voice.
Abyssian crept closer to hear the exchange, and Legion watched with a curious expression.
“Do you know what I’m capable of? Did you know that I can keep you alive, bringing you back from death, torturing you for years to come?”
Her eyes widened in fear as she looked at Abyssian and then at Legion, as if they were somehow going to save her.
“It’s true. I’ve seen him do it,” Legion said casually, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword.
Her eyes flickered back to me, she opened her mouth and closed it again.
“Don’t test my patience, Jana. I will do anything for my mate.”
She opened her mouth again, looking around the room, but she found that no one would help. She began to choke, as if some unknown force had wrapped its hand around her throat, but my shadows were contained.
“It was who, Jana? Say their name!”
She tried to speak again, but only a small squeak came out before she shook her head rapidly.
I jammed the shadow needles into her again, harder than before. Her scream rattled the room.
“I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, he made me do it ...”
“Who made you do it?” The shadows coiled around me, waiting to strike again.
Jana’s eyes widened suddenly, and body convulsed. Fear filled her eyes before they rolled back into her head. She seized, a green foam drooling from her mouth.
Legion jumped toward her, but Abyssian slammed into him, holding his chest back. “Nobody touch her! We don’t know what the hell that is.”
We stood there, helplessly watching as Jana died a slow death, succumbing to whatever poison was pouring from her mouth, dripping like acid on the stone floor. Green ichor began to line her veins like ivy.
“What the fuck was that?” Abyssian breathed, kneeling beside her feet where she hung on the wall. He sniffed over the substance, refusing to touch it, but he shook his head, looking at me in confusion. “I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
“Not like that, I haven’t,” Legion said, narrowing his eyes.
“Poison capsule in her teeth?” I asked him, and he nodded.
“Must be.”
“Where would she have even found something like that? She was a chambermaid,” Legion mused, scrubbing his hand down his jaw.
“Was death really the better option here?” Abyssian asked, standing up and crossing his arms. “Whoever it was, she feared him more than you.”
My mood soured further, and I turned on a heel to leave her cell.
“We’ll never know,” I said, my jaw tight. “It’s like you said, Abyssian. Dead people don’t talk.”
Chapter23
Reagan
“Sooo,” Nog drawled. “You and the Soulless One, huh?”
