Pact of Blood
همس الخواطر my coldhearted husband’s regretthe monster duke mistook me for his wifemy wife is the demon queenthe heiress blacklisted her husband
They were twisted, nightmarish caricatures of Dave’s own past.
There was the image of his mother, her face stretched into a jagged mask of grief; the form of a friend he had forgotten, his limbs elongated and covered in cold, iron spikes; and countless versions of himself, some burning with violet flames, others hollowed out and weeping.
"To leave this place," the Warden continued, stepping back into the gloom, "you must reclaim your own story. You must slay the nightmares of your own mind. If you fall, you become just another ghost in this graveyard, forever haunting the thrones of the forgotten."