I look at her and feel only disgust.
She smiles down at me, and the expression makes my skin crawl.
“This one?” she asks Viktor, her fingers brushing my jaw.
He nods, satisfied.
“Don’t worry,” she murmurs. “I’ll make a man out of you.”
Her hand slides over my dick, and bile rises at the back of my throat.
And so it begins.
From that day forward, I am counted among his victims.
If you don’t claim power, it is taken from you.
But I don’t give a damn.
I will come for you all.
Just wait.
Chapter 76
Milo
Nine years ago
I’m back from the academy because he summoned me here on the pretext of business.
When I refused, he brought my mother into it.
So here I am, in this revolting house I haven’t stepped foot in for two years.
I intend to do what he asked and be rid of him for a while, five years, if I’m lucky.
It’s late, the house is quiet.
I make my way to my bedroom, step inside, and close the door behind me.
A faint sniffling carries through the wall from the room next to mine, and I stop where I am.
What the hell is this now?
He doesn’t bring his victims into the guest bedrooms.
I step closer and press my ear to the wall. The sound comes again. Softer somehow, as if she’s trying to swallow it down.
That sound does something to what’s left of my heart, and I don’t even realise what I’m doing until I find myself sitting with my back against the wall, listening.
After I don’t know how long, I tap the wall once.
Her breath catches.
I can hear her clearly. She must be sitting on the floor on the other side, her back against the wall just like mine.
“I will kill him,” I murmur. “I promise.”
