Tatiana:
The sky cracked open above me, and I smiled as the first streak of lightning cut through the mist. I smiled as I saw what was to be the new game that I was going to play, the new fear that I was going to attack and the new anger that I was going to play around with. It was the more attracted and I was enjoying it.
It was perfect.
Everything about it was well crafted, well taken care of, and now I was doing it on my own terms. I was not following any rules, I was not following their boundaries, and I sure as hell was not bending the knee to any one, or even pretending to.
The shadows moved before me, not wolves this time. Not mindless followers. These were born from my fury, shaped from every shattered piece of my soul. Creatures that bled darkness. Bodies that dripped decay. They hissed as they slithered across the land, not walking, not crawling. Moving. Consuming.
They were ready for all of this. Whatever was coming, it was going to happen on their account. They were more than willing for it. And to make matters easier, they were ready for their revenge. They did not need to hide. They did not need to be afraid.
“This is what you wanted, Giovanni,” I whispered into the stale, electric air. “A war. But now… it’s mine. I am going to be the one to control it. If you think that you ever had any control over me, then now I’m going to show you what it is to challenge me”
I knew that he was watching from a distance, though I could not see him. I knew that he would have his men to deliver the message. I did not mind. I wanted him to know. I wanted him to hear of this. I wanted to enjoy the fear that I was going to inflict on all of them. Because it was going to teach them all a lesson. A lesson not to cross those that were superior to them.
He thought he could control me. He thought I would remain beside him, his perfect weapon, his cursed queen. The person that he could keep a leash around to fill his needs for him to be able to stand stronger while I stood in the shadows.
Fool.
He did not know how wrong he was.
He didn’t see the truth, not yet. That I never needed him. That I only stayed long enough to bleed him dry. I fed off his strength, his dominance, his lust, and now I’ve taken all he had to give. I am whole again. And he? He is already rotting from the inside, aging faster than his mind can comprehend.
He thought that he was standing stronger, but he did not realize that he was on the verge of weakness.
Soon, he’ll understand.
“March,” I said, voice laced with magic, and the creatures surged forward, silent, swift, soulless. “I want all of this to end tonight. I do not want any of them to survive. I want all of the power that you can consume. I want to see them all rotting in front of me. I want them to know what it is for them to challenge me, to challenge you to stand against us, to stand in our way. They’re all going to know what it is to do so.”
The wind carried their presence, and already I could taste the fear rippling through the pack in the distance. That’s the difference now, they can feel me. Not just the mist. Me.
I opened my palm.
A vision of Delilah shimmered, her face tense, her body still cloaked in the scent of that male, Ethan. I could almost feel the warmth they shared. Her hope. Her strength.
Disgusting.
The shame that I had now, staring at her, I was already ashamed of one daughter, but I had my hopes on this one. I had my hope on the strength that she had, the strength that she was trained to have. I was ashamed of seeing the way that she was.
She called me “Mom.”
She recognized who I was. She reminded me of something that I did not think existed.
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