A Greater Demon

BASTIEN

The swirling trees and the beautiful landscape were all made unappealing by the mist and the memories it threw at me.

“Why, how could you do such a thing?” I saw myself asking my wife.

I felt afresh how it was that I felt when I had first learned of her heart-breaking betrayal, how could she have done something so horrible as to cheat on me with none other than my half-brother, Leo?

The mist captured the memory perfectly and did not miss a thing, it lingered on all the painful memories, making them last as long as possible, drawing them out to achieve maximum effect.

I just stood resting on a tree as the voices spoke to me and the mist showed me images of my past.

“You have to understand, Bastien, I did not do what I did because I wanted to hurt you. That was never my intention,” my wife replied to me. She was sitting at the bedside, looking up at me.

I was standing and bearing down on her, I could not believe that the mate that I had marked and loved would even hurt me like t