14. A New Resolve

Demetrius

I’m in another one of my moods again. After that interaction with her, I decide not to go home. I can’t go back to the house that she had just been in days before lying on my couch and in my guest room with her scent sprinkled all over the place like air freshener.

I’m in my office back at the mansion of my coven sitting at my desk feeling like I never left intent on killing someone, and Aiden is at the top of my list. I mull over what’s happened the last few days still in a state of disbelief.

The evening of our date when I attempted to command her and disappear from her life haunted me. The look in her eyes, the way I watched the desire and need for me change into pure hatred was burned into my mind. I never expected to feel this way. I had been preparing to separate from her, and yet when it happened, the way in which it happened was weighing on me.

If I had felt darkness and despair before, it had now been intensified. I knew I could not follow her and pretend like nothi