“You know, I killed your mother while drunk driving. She was still alive when I hit her. But I hated how her blood stained my car and scared my dog… so I stepped on the gas and sent her to the afterlife.”
“You see this white pipe? It’s the leg your father broke when I threw him off the building. I forced the doctor to amputate it and turn it into a pipe. A souvenir. Just for you.”
“Hahaha!”
I clenched the phone, trembling with rage.
“You’re a monster. You’re no different from the beasts who slaughtered our people.”
“Oh, you picked up on that? I saw it in a documentary about how Nazis used human bones to build parts of their crematoriums.”
“Alaric, I curse you. I curse you to die a miserable death.”
I had lost my mind. I was ready to risk everything. If I had to go down, I would take him with me.
I swung the knife at him with all my fury. Alaric only laughed, shouting for help like it was all part of his plan.
Selene’s bodyguards raised their guns and a shot rang out, hitting my hand.
“Xavier, you’re insane! You really tried to kill someone with a knife!”
Rage flooded my vision, turning everything red. A fire burned deep in my chest—one that no one could extinguish.