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He was pissed.

“Don’t talk about him like that! He was a great man! You’re just lucky he didn’t come after you years ago.”

She laughed.

“Let me clue you in, Devy. He didn’t come for me because he knew he wouldn’t win. Instead, he had to take twenty fucking years to train you to fail. How pathetic was he that he made a loser for a son? Know what my Daddy didn’t do? He didn’t make a failure.”

The man was bright red and losing it.

GOOD.

Let the emasculation continue.

“What he didn’t get you ready for was that I’m a different kind of animal. I’m a monster like none ever made. I was born, I watched death, I walked through it, and I became besties with it. I sold my soul in order to save the countless lives I encounter every single day. Playing dirty is easy. Beating some tiny-dicked, misogynistic, piece of shit like you is easy. What took youYEARSto do, took me less than a week to unravel. That’s how pathetic your ‘master plan’ was.”

From where he sat, bound to his chair, he was breathing heavily, and pissed.

Well, he was about to get angrier.

“See, Devon, you fucked around, and now you’re going to find out. Playing the game above the board might have given you the‘W’on this, but you went after my family. The way you put that info on theDark Web…it got my Marine killed, and he mattered to me. That made me want to go so low with this game,that I kissed the Devil right in Hell. Don’t worry, though. I said hello to your daddy. He was there.”

Devon screamed.

His whole body shook, and she was glad this was destroying him because now, she was really going to destroy him.

“Know what I say to all the men who challenge me, Devy? Let me tell you.FUCK. THE. PATRIARCHY. Long live the queen!”

Elizabeth picked up a gas can and began pouring it all over the rotting remains in the casket.

First his father.

Then, his mother.

That was when he realized what she was going to do, and he began begging.

It fell on deaf ears.

“Don’t think I’ve forgotten how you went after me at the office and killed my secretary.”

He was so confused.

“HOW? I did this perfectly. You shouldn’t have been able to figure this out!”

She laughed.

“You gave me too many clues. I’m hell on clues, Devon. I love clues so much, that I eat, sleep, and breathe them.”

He started laughing like a lunatic. It was clear he was having a mental breakdown.

She poked every weakness and made him feel like he deserved.

IMPOTENT.

From where he stood, gun pointed at him, Zayn was staring at Devon like he was a few bricks short of a wall, and that was because he was.

“I hurt you. That’s all that matters.”

She shrugged.