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I look over at Althia, who is lying still on the bed. I would almost imagine that she is dead, except I can see her chest rising and falling.
Her skin has lost its usual warm glow. Instead, her skin looks pale and almost waxy. There are bruises on her face and her lips are broken.
I turn back to Yiosha. Now her hands are clenched into fists and her eyes are narrowed.
“Did you really think you would get away with this?” I ask her. “Did you really think you would survive this? If you had succeeded, do you think I would have just let it go?”
Yiosha tries to smile, tries to speak softly, sweetly, and calmly.
“You should just forget about her,” she says. The tendrils of my magic tighten around her, and she gasps. “You should just forget about her and get a nice dark elf mate. I’m sure you will be able to find someone.”
She’s begging, I realize, and a wave of warmth washes over me. Because if she’s begging then she know that she’s going to die. And she’s trying to get out of it.
“I’ve found my mate. And I don’t care that she’s human,” I tell Yiosha. A vein is throbbing in her neck. Tears have welled up in her eyes. My hands clench into tighter fists, and the tendrils of my magic tighten around Yiosha.
“I’m proud of her. I’m proud to be with her. I will never want anyone else. And I think that I can safely say that you are the one destroying the family name!”
Yiosha is openly crying now.
And I haven’t even hurt her properly yet, I think to myself with delighted disgust.
I have already thought of a thousand ways that I will kill her. I have already pictured her death, and I know that it will be glorious.
“Master, please. I was just trying to do the right thing. Humans are filthy, useless creatures. She’s just using you. Don’t you see?”
“If you’re trying to placate me, you’re doing a terrible job.” I let out a short, mirthless, barking laugh.
My rage explodes from me then, and the tendrils of magic shatter. Yiosha drops to the floor.
“She’s just after you for your money!” Yiosha coughs the words as she tries to crawl away from me. “She’s just trying to trap you into something you won’t be able to get out of!”
“You need to shut the fuck up!” I snap at her as I reach for her hair. I thread my hand through her hair and yank her up onto her feet. “You really don’t know who you’re fucking with.”
And then I start beating her.
My first punch lands squarely in her face. Her nose breaks upon impact with my fist. I pull back and then punch her again.
“This is what you did to her, right?” I whisper to her. “I’m going to do everything to you that you did to her. And worse.”
“Please,” she whispers. “I was just trying to do the right thing. I was just trying to save your family.”
“You should’ve just kept your hands to yourself. You should have just kept your thoughts to yourself.”
I let her fall, but my magic catches her before she can hit the ground. My magic is an even darker red than it was before, reflecting my anger.
I pin her to the wall with it, and I know that my magic must be as hot as fire because she starts screaming with pain.
I slap her then, again and again until her mouth begins to bleed.
My rage is doing most of the work. But my fear is also driving me. My fear that I almost lost Althia, the love of my life.
The fear that I almost lost her before I could really tell her how I felt.
The fear that I would lose her before I even got to have proper time with her.
I slow down then from hitting Yiosha, and her head hangs. For a second, I think I have killed her, but then she looks up at me.
Her eyes are bright and beady. I know that by the time this night is over, they will be blank and lifeless.
