Chapter 172- Livia

For reasons Rhye had no interest in examining even now, he had stood in the center of the carnage he’d wrought, wanting nothing less than complete obliteration. Fire and cinder, smoldering rubble. He had wanted the lab erased from existence, nothing but a scar of black ash on the empty lot where it stood. And whether he wanted to acknowledge it or not, he knew that his want for destruction had more than a passing connection to Livia. It had been her face he’d seen in his mind as he lit the place up. It had been the thought of her grief that made him savor each of the rogue deaths he delivered tonight.

Shoving his hands into the pockets of his coat, Rhye headed against the wind and cut down a South End side alley. He wasn’t sure where he was going, although he supposed he should have known. He recognized Livia’s shitty neighborhood even before he turned onto the street that would eventually dump him onto her block.

Rhye still couldn’t fathom her living in such squalid conditions. As t