Married To A Monster
Her face was unreadable now — calm, deliberate.
Then, slowly, she sat down.
For a long moment, she said nothing.
The storm had passed outside, but thunder still rolled inside her chest.
Finally, her lips parted, a whisper soft but deadly:
“If I have to become the monster to end him, then so be it.”
Lucien’s heart stopped.
You scare me sometimes, Zara. Not because of what you’ve done… but because I don’t know what you’ll do next. He said.
Because in that instant, he knew — the war wasn’t over.