Chapter Twenty-Six
Veyn
Iam a god.
Humans would give me their first born to appease my hunger. They would offer the thing they loved most in the world at my altar and beg for my mere presence in their lives.
And she ran from me.
She left me without a backwards glance to go to him. A weak human who couldn’t even be bothered to grant her a simple task of slaughtering her enemies. A worthless cluster of meat and pus who tapers her venom and rage.
And this is the man she desires.
The man she chose over me … a god.
To heighten the very foundation of my fury, they hide in the single room that holds no mirrors. Cutting me off from her. Isolating me when I have done everything she’s asked and more.
And she chose him.
The mirror in the attic bursts in an explosion of shimmering dust. Another in one of the furthest bedrooms follows.
The manor rings with my orchestra of rage.
Every voice in my head screams that I should give him to my brothers.
To let them strip the flesh off his bones and use his ribcage for a crown.
With him gone, Lenora will only be mine.
She will only want me. I will be all she needs.
I protected him for her. I have done so much…
A mirror in an upstairs bathroom shatters.
I will show her.
I will show both of them how deeply they need me.
I will prove that I am not some weak being they can summon when they need me and forget me the next. I will teach them to worship me the way they were meant to.
“Veyn?”
The sight of her fuels my displeasure. It heightens my indignation.
The vision of her soft curves beautifully outlined by the dull light coming through the windows, tangling in her dark curls should do nothing, but it serves to remind me that I am confined to these mirrors.
These portals that can only take me where one resides while he can touch her, have her whenever he likes.
“What’s wrong?”
Her big, dark eyes search the length of the mirror in her room, trying to find me.
And I almost recant. I almost regret my momentary anger. I almost forget why I’m even upset when she’s standing before me, so small and concerned.
Then he follows her with her scent all over him and I remember why he must die.