Chapter 44.

Serana POV.

Hearing the words that Starci has said makes me want to kill them all and rip the scale from my chest myself. I can’t be involved with Vilkas after knowing the extent of what he has done, and willingly it would seem. I’m such a fucking fool. I believed him. I fell in love with him and he let it happen, knowing I was just a means to an end.

“Bedelia, is this true? Tell me she is lying.” I beseech her when she whimpers inside me.

“She is telling the truth. I’m sorry Serana.” I take another step back and lower my guard as Bedelia takes control. She isn’t going to fight and neither am I. We just want to go home. She can have him. I will find a way to break this bond and remove the heart scale without it killing me. I don’t want them near me.

I’m numb. I can’t process anything that has happened over the years, but this has to be the cruellest. We fly away, and I don’t even know what was said after Bedelia took control. I will never be the same again.

“It’s better to be feared.”