Punished in Ice
I drifted in midair, watching Ronan's body being carried away. My heart was utterly still. There was no hatred or resentment. It felt like watching the end of a stranger’s story.
Once, I thought I would hate him for the rest of my life for his coldness in that cellar, for causing our child’s death, and for letting himself be blinded and hurting me again and again. Yet standing here now, no longer bound by flesh, watching him spend the rest of his life in penance, watching the powerful man he once was turn into a frail, exhausted old man, the hatred had scattered like smoke in the wind until nothing remained.
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