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“Turn it off, Hendrik,” I said, my tone cool and collected.
But the violence radiated from every syllable. Violence that would make him feel the kind of pain I felt if he didn’t fucking listen.
His jaw flexed, then he straightened.
“No.”
My fist went flying again, this time into his stomach.
He doubled over and took a moment to finally draw in a gulp of air.
We were corporeal here, because we were dead, but not dead.
I didn’t know exactly how it worked, but I didn’t care right now, either.
All that mattered was that Hendrik taught me how to numb it all like he had always done.
And right now, every time he looked at me it only made it worse.
When he finally leaned back and reflected my emotions in his black eyes, I fucking lost it.
“Turn!”
My fist met his head.
“It!”
My dagger slid down his chest.
“OFF!”
With the last word, I pounced on him and sank my teeth into his shoulder.
He hissed at the pain, but he didn’t fight me.
I wanted him to fight.
I wanted him to meet my rage with his own unresolved heat.
Instead, something was different about him here.
“Do what you need to do,” he repeated as he lowered his head. He knelt on all fours and his dark hair brushed against the flowers. The dark silky strands blended in with the petals and I wasn’t sure where the death blooms ended and Hendrik began.
His powerful shoulders rippled with a tremor.
Not of hatred, but of sorrow.
“Damn it, Hendrik!” I roared as I slammed my fist against the ground. Soil and broken petals puffed into the air.
I wanted blood.
I wanted a fight.
But Hendrik wasn’t giving it to me, and because of that, he was forcing me tofeel.
My fingers sank into the soil and I gripped into the deep roots of the Death Lotus blooms. Perhaps that’s all that was keeping this realm together and I could rip it out, providing me with the abyss that I desperately desired.
Because everything was over. The witches who had made me into a monster were gone.
