My Stepbrother, My Mate
It wanted him gone—erased, annihilated—because in his voice was a plea strong enough to crack the shell of madness that had become my skin.
I raised my hand, claws dripping with the blood of kin—my kin. The ichor clung to me like guilt made flesh, slick and steaming in the dying light. My fingers trembled, not from weakness, but from a frenzied ecstasy I no longer recognized as my own. A thousand voices shrieked in my mind—some pleading, some laughing, some mine. I couldn't tell. My heart thrashed in my chest, a beast trying to claw its way free. And yet, even as madness devoured me whole, I found myself whispering—not a spell, not a curse, but a name: "Xavier."
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