The Devil's Wedding Ring
who had shattered everything she touched.
The days that followed were a descent into a waking nightmare. The death threats didn't stop, they intensified. They came in the mail, they were spray-painted on the perimeter walls, and they arrived in digital pings that Cillian tried to intercept.
One night after dinner, the tension finally broke. A loud, violent crack echoed through the hall. A heavy stone had been hurled with enough force to shatter one of the reinforced glass windows. The sturdy, expensive glass, the kind Cillian said nothing could penetrate sprayed across the floor in a thousand shimmering diamonds.