Chapter 43: Indignance

Thane Drogos

Seeing Evelyn again, after an excruciating month, felt like coming up for air. I had been dragged beneath the waves, smothered in darkness and icy water, fighting my way back up to the surface.

Then I saw her.

In a white dress that didn't suit her at all, a shawl over her shoulders, hiding all of her skin. Her face was hidden from me behind her veil. She marched down the aisle to a man that wasn't me. A man that didn't deserve her.

Richard wore a crown atop his head, but it wasn't lost on me how hard he gripped Evie's arm like she would run at the first chance she got.

My fingers played the keys, but my eyes wouldn't leave her.

Her shoulders were set back, chin held high as if she walked toward the gallows. Pure resignation. She accepted her fate.

But she wasn't broken.

In an act of defiance, she shed her shawl, revealing her scars, the mauve claw marks from the siren attack. The dress dipped down in front, showing off the freckles sprinkled across her collarbone. The