The Master's wife
My throat tightened painfully, I wanted to scream, instead, I kept walking toward the altar where Gabriel Vane waited in ceremonial black robes, calm and composed like the chaos inside me did not exist.
The Master looked pleased, that frightened me more than anger ever could, silver streaked through his dark hair beneath the candlelight while his pale eyes followed my every movement with quiet possession, he looked untouchable standing there before the congregation, powerful, revered and painfully old, the closer I came to the altar, the harder it became to breathe.
Two nights earlier, I had stood alone inside his private study praying for the walls to swallow me whole, the memory still clun
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