Iron Veve's Kiss
The night he branded me, he’d hummed it as I bled, “to sweeten the lesson.”
“Dru,” I choke out, but she’s already staring at the tree line, her nail raised like a saint’s blade.
The first black butterfly lands on the shotgun barrel in Big Danni’s grip. Then another. And another. Dozens. Hundreds. They blot out the storm-gray sky, wings shimmering like oil spills. I gag—they stink, like rot and burnt sugar, the same stench as the villages Esteban razed.
Mamá taught me their name—mariposa negra—the night Esteban burned her santuario (shrine), their wings swarming as she screamed…
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