Chapter 31

SAMMY

I hit the floor with a thud. My face throbs. My head pounds.

"I told you. You can't win, child. I'm too strong." The beast cackles.

I pick myself up. Wiping the blood from my mouth. I'm tired, but I'm not giving up.

"You won't get control. Not again." I spit blood on the floor.

"Look at yourself." The beast walks around me. "Pathetic! Weak! Not one ounce of strength in you. You're too much of a coward to take what's yours. That's why I exist. Someone has to take the path destined for us. That will be me." She lands another punch to my head, sending me flying across the void, bouncing off a wall and crashing to the floor.

"I'll fight you." I struggle as I get to my hands and knees. "I'll kill you." I fight the white-hot pain in my head.

"Child, you couldn't harm a fly and the way I see it, you're as good as dead now." She walks over and delivers a kick to my chest.

I roll on the floor, whining holding my ribs.

"I can't believe the creator chose to pair me with the garbage that la