Chapter 22 - Alec

For once, I’m rather glad Chesed was in control as he opened that box. It seems Ignazio was taking a page out of Chesed’s book on how to intimidate an enemy. Too bad Chesed doesn’t get intimidated by anything or anyone. Well, except for Nonna, she scared the shit out of him. 

So while I felt like I wanted to throw up, he was unfazed as we looked down at the bloodied severed head of a young male.

His eye sockets empty, the twisted bastard had carved them out with silver, judging by the burns on the socket, while he was alive. I shoved away my own disgust at this act when Crista almost collapsed.

The tears staining her cheeks and filling her blue eyes cut me to the core. I never want to see her cry again. ‘Then we kill Ignazio.’ Chesed concluded. ‘Oh, we are killing that pup, slowly and in the most painful wa