HIS MUSE, HIS MADNESS
"You enjoy this, don't you? Destroying everything I build."
He sets the glass down with a soft click.
"If a man is destroyed by pressure, Thomas, he was never a man to begin with."
My vision tunnels.
"So yes," he finishes, voice smooth as a blade, "I meddled. You aren't fit. I did what had to be done."
Before I even register it—
My fist slams into his jaw.
My mother gasps.
The bastard touches his lip, sees the smear of blood, and laughs.
A cold, dismissive laugh.