Ashes of a Vow
Kaelen never looked back.
I stood in the doorway, watching them walk to the elevator.
In the garage, Kaelen opened the passenger door for Seraphina. As she got in, she deliberately rolled down the window.
She took out that damned memory crystal.
"Want to see it again?" she yelled at me.
The crystal activated, and the humiliating images were projected onto the car window again—me, thirteen years ago, bound in silver chains, covered in blood, sobbing in despair...
And this time, Kaelen sat in the driver's seat and watched it all without stopping her.