LOVE AND DEATH
One single night, and he’d already turned his quarters into a slaughterhouse.
“You know,” he said, finally sitting up, a weird smile curling his lips, “I wanted to give you a surprise this morning. And I’m glad you’re surprised.”
This guy was a psychopath.
Why hadn’t I clocked it before?
The arrogance, the cruelty, the casual violence—I’d read them as entitlement, as the spoiled behavior of a rich brat who’d never faced consequences. But this was something else. This was a lack of something fundamental, a hole where empathy should have been.