26. Iyara

YILEYNA

My heart squeezed at those words. Mixed with the sadness I felt for the young woman who had been murdered for loving him, I felt something else.

Theon closed his eyes, and I could almost see him shattering, my own eyes stung with tears. I didn’t like seeing him in pain, it was obvious he had been through a lot.

Cadoran continued as if he had wanted to spill the burden the weighed upon him.

"It was one of the final steps to shape you into the man you would become. Your father wanted you to become his mirror, his shadow, his-"

"I will never be him." Theon cut off, his eyes blazing. "What else has he done, tell me!"

"Aside from selling the women and killing those who disobeyed him, I know not what is true or what not, but there were rumours that he had a dark power in his grasp. Something that-"

"Arabella. We know. Anything else?"

Theon’s anger was at breaking point, and he was fuelling his pain into rage, worrying me.

"Nothing, I'm sorry." Cadoran’s fear had returned, an