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My head spun. The slight headache I felt earlier now screamed in pain. I couldn’t decipher my father’s encoded language right now.
“Can you just unchain me and tell me what the fuck is going on?”
My father stilled.
Then smiled.
“You fool,” he continued. “You and Wrath thought you could move on after he came back. You thought I would walk away and leave you with all of this, with everything I worked so hard for.”
“If you had a problem with Wrath becoming the king of demons, you should have said something sooner,” I spat.
“How?” His voice raised, cutting through the chilled air. “How was I supposed to do anything at all when you had her blood?” He pointed a finger in Lyra’s direction. “And all you wanted to do was close the veil!”
I instinctively pulled against the chains holding me back. Lyra stirred slightly, just beginning to wake up. Hell, she was not going to like this.
“Where is all of this coming from?” I demanded. “You helped us before. You wanted to close the damn veil just as badly as we did. But that was all a lie, wasn’t it! Now what? You’re working against us? Did half of these demons come from the other side of that veil, too?”
He laughed. “If you ever thought I was going to help you close that damn veil, you were mistaken. This is precisely what I’m talking about, son. You’re lost. You and brother have lost sight of what’s important.”
“Tell me, then! What’s so important to you that you’d risk everything?”
His sharp jade eyes narrowed in on me, his gaze so fierce that I felt the energy from his words when he replied in one simple breath, “Power.”
Lyra moaned in confusion, her eyes blinking open and scanning the chaos happening around her.
“Lyra,” I called out, not caring that anyone else fucking heard. There was no secret that I felt strongly for her, that I would do anything to protect her.
Anything.
Beyond my father, her eyes met mine, her brows drawn together in confusion. “What’s going on?”
A silent beat passed. “I’m still trying to figure that out myself.”
“You thought you could outsmart me, both of you.” My father paced, covering the width of the clearing in the forest. The remaining demons stood silently on the outside.
Cowards. All of them were weak, spineless cowards.
“Well, how does it feel? How does it feel to think you have it all figured out, only to have everything ripped away from you?”
Lyra stilled.
“The veil,” she breathed.
My father spun in her direction. “Look at that,” he seethed. “The girl isn’t as helpless as I thought she was.”
“The veil?” I repeated. “What about the veil?”
Lyra’s eyes met mine in a panic. “Something happened when I went through, something… the veil isn’t closed, Alek. We didn’t finish it.”
“Yes, we did. I saw you close it!”
My father laughed, cold and heartless.
I slid my gaze to him. “What did you do?” I snapped.
I could barely look at him. Hell, I could barely sit this close to him. He had ruined everything for me. Everything. He’d turned me into this person, made me become the bad one.
Wrath was the one who became the king of demons, not me. He was the one who took over, who stepped into his right as the king.
