MasukIt’s late by the time dad and I get home, and I’m tired. Usually after I’m done training, I either come straight home or hang out with King and Ansel, but today…I still might have been a little scared of the faceless watcher who may actually turn out to be the god of death. I decided to stay in the
There’s a flash of worry in Tali’s eyes at my words, and her posture straightens for a second before she relaxes once again.“I didn’t,” she admits.“At some point, I didn’t want to keep living. When I was in the brothel, I didn’t want to keep living. I even made a weak attempt at killing myself. Ha
Tali sits relaxed after sharing her rather disturbing story with me. Clearly, she no longer feels the weight of it anymore, but my mind is swirling with questions, the main one being,“Why don’t you want me to tell Collins?”She looks at me as I ask the question, and a small frown tugs on her lips,
“No, it isn’t. The mistress of the brothel, after what happened, saw me ready to take customers. After all, I’d serviced four men at once.”“What? But you were a child, that was illegal!” She bursts out laughing.“Illegal, huh?” she laughs some more before her laughter dies down, and she turns seri
My heart breaks for her because she was only a child, and her one shot to make it out of that cave was crushed by her mom. Her mom who died and left her right after.“What did you do?” I find myself asking, and she chuckles at that.“Here I was thinking I was the impatient one among us.”“You still
CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVETali’s scar is something I don’t like to acknowledge, because if I’m being honest, it creeps me out. It’s a long, ugly scar on the left side of her face, from her eye down to the side of her mouth. It’s staring you in the face every time you look at her, so it’s hard to miss, alm







