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I turn to look out the window.
“Cillian…”
“I stalked them home one day, caught them together in one of those pedestrian tunnels under train tracks, and I…”
Cut out their tongues and eyes with a pencil, and then decapitated them both.
“Killed them.”
Some details nobody needs to know.
“Lorcan found me right after it happened, and it pushed him past his limit with me.” I frown. “It was…messy.”
Una swallows.
I stub out my cigarette and then cross the penthouse to the kitchen. I’m washing the smoky smell off my hands and face when I hear her come up behind me.
“You mentioned learning to channel it. That anger in you.”
I turn, toweling off my chin and hands as I lean against the counter.
“How do you? Channel it, I mean?”
“The club, for one.”
Una bristles, her mouth thinning.
“You did ask me about that before.”
She looks away. “Yeah, well, I don’t need to know—”
“You’re the first, actually.”
Slowly she turns to look at me. “What?”
“You asked me about going there and tying girls up. I’ve been to Club Venom once in a while since I moved to New York. But I’d never taken anyone to a private room before.”
“Why me?” she whispers hesitantly.
“Because you looked like prey.”
She looks down at her feet.
“And because I saw at least a flicker of my own monster and darkness in you,” I growl quietly.
Una takes another sip of her tea.
“What else do you do? As an outlet?”
My jaw clenches.
“You hurt people, for one…”
When I still don’t answer, her mouth tightens.
“My father hurt—”
“I amnotyour father,” I hiss. “I’mnot. The people I hurt…” I look away. “The people I hurt deserve it.”
