“Come back to me. No Chaos, no Harmony. Just you.”
The swirling burgundy takes a while to completely stop spinning. When it finally does, the sheer anger on my behalf takes my breath away.
“I’ll respect the fact that these are your feelings and opinions on the matter. But you’re wrong. Some lessons take a long time to learn, but we will teach you. I may be shit at taking things seriously compared to my brothers, but I swear to you now, and until forever, I’ll do whatever necessary to make sure you learn you’re not the reason for other people’s evil.”
I swallow harshly at his seriousness and at the cloud of darkness that drifts across his face.
“I’ve let you off too easy. Give me more details.”
My head shakes a few times.
“Tell me your worst, Riven.”
Riven
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Bad little angel.
Turning this around on me.
Okay…I kind of swore I’d be honest if she was.
I’d rather go back to thinking about how I’m going to cut Jerry’s and Melvin’s hearts out.
I wonder if she wants to help or—
“Riven.”
I cling to the rage burning inside of me. If I stay mad, I can just let my horrors spill out. There won’t be any thinking. No reliving, no…feeling.
She won’t let me get away with that, though.
Although it would only be fair if she did.
I let her ass get away with it.
She doesn’t do a very good job of hiding herself from me anymore. Her tempting little body trembles against mine, and I don’t even think she knows it.
I tug her closer and soak in those tremors that vibrate down to my soul.
A soul that clung to the thought of her for dear life just days ago.
Ugh, fine. Let me get this over with.
“I’m the Empowerer to the Abandon. More specifically Seductions.”
“I have no clue what that truly means.”
“I know that, unfortunately. No one really does. Not even my brothers.”
My lips flap together as I blow out a harsh breath.
“For the first few years of my life, my primary role, I guess you can call it, was keeping Creed from killing everyone. If he hasn’t told you that yet, my bad, but it’s important.”
“He did. He also told me why your Chaos came out for the first time.”
I hum.
