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What happens after, only the gods know.
Chapter 7
Levi
The rumors were true.
Her heart has turned to stone.
I didn’t want to believe it, but now that I’ve seen Katrina in the flesh, there is no questioning the veins that once bled crimson, have turned to ice.
What happened to her?
She had been such a bubbly child, always smiling and laughing at those around her.
And then from the sidelines I had watched how in her teen years she had turned curious in nature, wanting to experience life, in all its forms. It had been intoxicating to watch her discover the world on her own. How she sucked the marrow of it with such passion and vivacity.
But now?
Now she’s this cold statue of a thing. Beautiful to uphold but dead on the inside.
When news of King Orville’s death arrived in the east, my people ran to the streets to rejoice and cheer his demise. I wasn’t as eager to join the celebration. Instead, I stayed in solitude in my castle, troubled that with the news of his death, another accompanied it.
Katrina had been crowned queen mere hours after his passing, and no one in her court so much as saw a single tear being shed for her late father.
Not that I would have wept for the bastard, but all the memories I treasured of his daughter told me she worshiped the ground he walked on. She admired him as much as she loved him, and I couldn’t fathom what could have possibly happened for his death not to wring one single tear from her eye.
I told myself that she must have mourned him behind closed doors, not wanting to look weak to her court. But now that I’ve been in the same room with her, I’m not sure grief is even an emotion she is familiar with. In fact, she appeared as if wearing her father’s crown on her head wasn’t a burden at all. That it was always hers to claim.
The fuck happened to you, Kat?
Did he ruin you as much as he ruined me and everyone I loved?
What?
Maybe it’s best that I don’t have these answers.
That I remain clueless of it all.
For if I’m to strip Kat of her power, then what good will it do me if I gain a sliver of sympathy for her?
I know for a fact that Teo won’t think twice about her feelings when he takes her throne. And if I’m to get my due on those who wronged me, I need to concentrate on the long game of it all.
Fuck.
I really do need to get my shit together.
Even if that means I must pretend that the girl who once had bewitched me, body and soul, never existed.
Maybe I won’t be pretending at all.
Because the person I met last night has no similarities to my childhood love.
None.
Not even those light gray eyes that had always reminded me of pale moonlight hold the same light to them.
There had been a flicker.
