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“And you hurt him.”
“Not nearly enough.”
“It is enough.” She ran her fingers through my hair, making me jerk. “We’re even. You’ve delivered enough revenge. I’m okay, Aslan. I’m okay with this. I can’t ask you to kill him. I don’t want you to live with that.”
“You’re not asking me.” I pressed a little harder on the knife.
Ethan’s legs spasmed, and he sobbed like a child. He tried to wriggle away from my impalement, but with Neri’s weight on top of him and the wounds I’d already given, he barely clung to consciousness.
“I’ll happily do it. I want to do it.” My stare dropped to her mouth. “I’d kill him a thousand times if it would take away what he did to you.”
She smiled sadly. “And that’s enough for me. That’s more than enough. To know you care that much. To know how far you’d go.”
“I’d go to the depths of hell for you.”
“Don’t kill him,” she breathed. “I made a mistake asking you to. And I’m asking you now...please. Don’t kill him.” She pushed me back, firmly, resolutely.
My rage faded a little, leaving me jittery and confused.
Sitting on my ass, I brought my knees up and fingered the knife. The hilt was heavy teak with brass detailing down the sides. I’d seen Jack rinse it every time he used it in the sea so the saltwater wouldn’t eat its way through metal and wood.
It gleamed with crimson and moonlight, angry at being denied.
It needed blood.
It wanted to taste every drop of Ethan’s contaminated blood.
Shaking my head, I refocused.
He has to die...
Neri kneeled before me.
Ethan lay on his side, barely breathing.
His nose looked broken.
He moaned with every breath as if his ribs were cracked.
Two fingers were missing, pumping blood as quickly as the spear hole in his leg.
He didn’t look like a monster anymore. He looked chewed up and spat back out by an even bigger one.
I shivered as humanity slithered back through me.
I’d done that.
I would flay him bone by bone if Neri asked me to.
I would do whatever it took to take away what she endured.
I’d kill fucking everyone.
The knife suddenly fell from my icy fingers, clattering against the deck.
I’m worse than him...
Trembles caught me unaware.
