Erina
A replacement. That was how he thought of me. Something to punish because she left him, and keeping me from Hein was the ultimate punishment. And yet, I couldn’t help what I felt for Magnus. It was an exclusive torture, torn between two men.
Those bitter words he threw at me kept repeating in my mind. My father killed my mother. How could it be true? I didn’t want to believe him, but I knew the harsh man my father was. I’ve seen him kill; the way he switched off his humanity when he did. It was terrifying. If only he knew he wasn’t so different from the monsters he persecuted. I never wanted to believe Magnus when he said so, but he was right. We were all monsters.
There would be no mercy for me when he found me, and he will, because he wasn’t a man who gave up. The word failure wasn’t in his vocabulary. I was ready for him, sitting there on my bed. Unafraid. Maybe I even craved death. It would be better than living tied to a man that didn’t love me for me. A man. Since when hav
