Chapter Twenty-six

The Island was shrouded in darkness as Bernard stood among the palm trees as the wind blew in from the ocean. The darkness seemed to echo his thoughts as his mind took him down memory lane. The times that he had brutally killed someone for crossing him in even the slightest way. The times that he had killed entire families and raped their mothers and daughters just to humiliate them and break down the men in their families. He had even killed children and babies with no more thought that it would take to swat a fly. That’s how he had always lived his life. He didn’t regret a single moment of it even as he had stood there basking in the way the blood had flowed from their bodies and the light had left their eyes. He was a cold and cruel man and he knew it. He was bred from the same stock as his father. Like himself his father had been someone many people had considered evil. 

Bernard took a