Her chest rises and falls as she stares him down.
“I believe I liked it better when you were quiet.”
“I’m sure you did. You never did like to hear me tell you all the things Father said and did to me. You couldn’t even bother to open the door for me. It was too hard for you then to face the truth. It seems that hasn’t changed at all.”
My brows draw together as I glance at the side of his face.
What in the hell is he talking about?
My eyes cut to Kyzen, but he quickly tears his attention from me.
Oh. Assholes. They’re keeping secrets from me.
Not cool.
“I don’t understand why you four have created these horrible scenarios of me and are saying things that never happened, but I will prove to you that I’m a great mother. Always have been and always will be. We will have plenty of time to catch up and get history straight.”
“Not happening. You’re going to let us out of this room now.”
She shakes her head at Creed.
“No, I am not. Your Binder seems to be the only being you all care about, and she’s safe. For now. You deny me my rightful time, and that will change. Mark my words. I bring life into this realm. I, too, can take it away.”
She holds Creed’s glare, letting her warning ring loud and clear.
With a snap of her fingers, she orders the Attendants to clean up the mess, then leave us be.
We sit here silently until they leave.
“That’s not how her power works. She can only eliminate creations she specifically made. Such as all those gods-awful flowers. She can’t just snap her fingers and kill Thayla,” Amick says.
“She can’t. Our father can. Regardless of her admitting it or not, he’s always been her weapon. Unbeknownst to her, though, handing Thayla over to him would make him very happy.”
The three of us face Creed as he stares at the door like his eyes can kill the power surrounding it.
Not going to happen, unfortunately.
“Has anyone gotten through to Derivius yet?” Kyzen asks.
“If we had, we would’ve already said something.”
“I was just asking and this isn’t the time for your sarcasm, Riven. If you weren’t paying any attention two minutes ago, things just got very fucking serious. Thayla’s in real danger now if we don’t do whatever the hell she wants. Do you understand that?”
“Oh, I understand, brother. Don’t worry.”
I sigh as I sink back into the couch.
I understand that if something happens to my angel while we’re locked away in here, then Valveilious can kiss itself goodbye.
Once I’m done unleashing more Chaos than this realm’s ever seen, I’ll storm the streets of the Abandon and paint that motherfucker burgundy.
Maybe even blue.
My two sides will come together as one just as they did when I killed Obsidian and I’ll release that special kind of hell all across that ashy wasteland.
I’m sure there’s another Seductions already built.
I’ll blow that fucking place up as well, then dance among the rubble with my Binder by my side.
