His Target

JERAH

I didn't realize when we got home. From the moment Void had met me in the room and helped me into his car, all I could recall doing was shedding tears.

I didn't even try to stop. For the first time, I was gripped by a new, unfamiliar pain. It was unlike any I had known.

Bit by bit, my memories began to return. They weren't vivid yet, but Mina's words morphed into images and made it a little easy to recover some of the memories.

Although, I wished I didn't have to remember them. But they just came freely.

I had been truly evil. I recalled those times I'd hurt my father's servants for the slightest offense. I recalled when how happy I was to hurt someone, and how uncomfortable I was when the atmosphere was too peaceful. There was a day I had chopped off a woman's finger for burning my meal. While she wailed, father had applauded me. And I had been so happy.

I was too young to have a heart as dark as that. If I hadn't fallen off the cliff and lost my mem