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Orian’s pov

"You know I wished I had taken your offer on killing her the first time she hit and brutalized me and then the time she attempted to burn me in my bedroom." He laughed and turned his head to me, nervous laughter, and I sat up with a smile attempting to ease him, "The damage she did over the years could have been avoided."

It was a case of someone you love hurting you like how they knew you had been hurt the most. Nexus didn't have good parents just like I did. They were present in fulfilling their duties sometimes but then they were physically abusive and used the fact that they provided for him which wasn't all the time to guilt him into not talking about their toxic parental patterns.

And Ellie did the same thing.

She wasn't as innocent as her name neither was she as sweet as the words came from her mouth.

To the public, they seemed like a normal couple and that was my perception till he told me what was happening.

She was also a vampire but wasn't one