Damien's POVAfter she retired to our bedroom, I retreated to my study because paperwork never stopped and I preferred working at night when the house was quiet.That's when everything went to hell.The first sign was the headache, sharp and sudden, like someone driving railroad spikes into my skull. I gripped the edge of my desk and breathed through it, waiting for it to pass.It didn't pass like it always did. Instead, I felt like i was being wacked in the head repeatedly.Then came the voice, dark and ancient and completely wrong.Kill her.I froze, every muscle in my body going rigid. The voice was inside my head but it wasn't mine, it wasn't me, it was something else entirely.She doesn't belong, she's making you weak, kill her before she destroys you."No," I said out loud, my voice hoarse. "That's not, she's not—" I let out a guttural noise as pain exploded through my body like I was being torn apart from the inside. My bones felt like they were breaking and reforming, my wol
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