Sin For me, Daddy.
Drystan didn’t blink.
Didn’t flinch.
He tilted his neck slowly, easing the crack of tension. Then stood up.
Tall. Towering. Unapologetically lethal.
“I am a monster,” he said, spreading his arms. “I know.”
He turned back to Lowel, who was now shaking, barely holding his head up.
“But tell me,” Drystan asked, voice quiet again, “what are you?”
He smiled.
It wasn’t warm. It wasn’t kind.
It was death, dressed in beauty.