The Revenge of One Humiliated
Élianor
I go up to my room. I close the door. I sit on the bed. I look at my hands. My hands that are trembling. My hands that held his. My hands that held my children. My hands that destroyed men, lives, empires. My hands that no longer know what they want, what they can, what they dare. My hands that want to touch him, take him, keep him, and that only know how to run, to leave, to forget themselves, to forget everything, to leave everything behind—faces, names, nights, loves, promises. Everything. Everything. Everything.