Chapter 62 VERNERO POV

The night is dark and full of terrors!

I understood that saying more than anyone could ever fathom. I knew it intimately and felt its meaning in and out. For I have lived it before. One time through my sad hateful life, I breathed in darkness and breathed out terror. I ate darkness and dumped out terror. Darkness broke every ounce of humanity in me, turned it into terror, and made sure it reined all over my body. It took everything from me until I was but the darkness that had swallowed me whole.

Lorik Cattanio, the man whom I once looked up to as a father, the one whom I had dreamed of him being my superhero, happened to be my worst nightmare. He was the darkness that took residence in me, snipping every little fiber of my being and replacing it all with maliciousness, remorselessness, the emotionless devil that feasted on the pain and screams o f those I had trampled upon.

For the very first time since he turned me into this, the sparkle of hope and light had shimmered deep inside me, deep within my rotten hardened core. I felt it sizzling daily and growing into bigger flames, lighting up my world and ridding the darkness. And that was all t o Leigh’s arrival in my life. She was my hope, she became the reason why I wanted to see the light, why I wanted to be a better man.

Watching her take that bullet had utterly distinguished the little flame, letting darkness take full rein of my soul yet again. The sight of her blood had made me lose myself in a way I never thought possible. Leigh-Ari Montreal was my angel, and without her, I was going straight to hell and there wouldn’t be any redemption. And if that’s what it was, then fuck it! What would be the point of living in a world where she doesn’t exist?

My mind drifted to her. I loved that girl. Heavens I loved that soul with every fiber of my cursed, evil, and unworthy of redemption being. I loved her so much I couldn’t imagine my days without having her in my arms. I needed her, she was the factor that controlled my heart, she owned me. This broken, shattered soul was all hers. A tremor shot through me at

the thought of her laying in a pool of her blood. She had to live. Goodness, she had to live!

While I was busy maiming and dismembering the Judases here, Leigh-Ari was fighting for her life at the hospital. I didn’t even know which hospital she was taken to. I feared for her because I was afraid she might leave me. She might leave US. And if she did, there was no guarantee of what would happen to me. To my brother! My poor brother, the center of my life and my citadel.

When the first light of the morning chased away the darkness that covered the land, I called Ciello down and some of the guys to help me take the now incapacitated Raquel up. She was still alive, which was rather shocking. I hadn’t expected that she would hold on this long, especially after drilling each limp off her body. But then she was so strong, I’d give her that.

she hadn’t done that, she was going to live her life like a

already! You can’t leave me hanging here like a fuckin’ bat for everyone to see. How dare you humiliate me in front of these cowards?” Lorik barked struggling down the chains, causing them to make a loud sound as they swung him around. The sight of him so bound and helpless was a frickin’ feast to my eyes. And they say the eyes are

out dragging the chair next to his suspended body and placing it under him. I sat down and watched him, then busted out laughing when he glared at me angrily. I

moment,

Lorik Cattanio. Who would have thought?” I asked with a huge

killing you. You should’ve

I scrunched my nose, squinted my eyes, and raised my hand,

this delusional for so long. It’s impeccable. Truly amazing. Like, look at you, screaming and yelling at me.” I said reclined back and watching as the air literally left his lungs. It was clear that he had never, even in his wildest dreams, ever thought that he would be the one on suspended chains, head upside down. I mean I didn’t go extra as he had

to get me out of these chains.” He said in a calmer voice, but he still held that spite and I didn’t like it. It made me so

him, “You remember that time you left him out in the biting cold, for three damn nights without food or anything to cover his body, that’s where

you?” He asked with a serious

then got up from the seat

and the rest of the guys entered at that moment in a long

my bloodied self and winced at the sight of the blood that had covered m y whole front. If Leigh was here, she was going to kill me, like literally, she was going to kill m e

up, then followed me out the dungeons. The walk into Dark Woods was silent, filled with the sound of our feet against the drying leaves. The mines had done a good number on the trees here, but despite the great destruction, one

sharp with no branches on the log. It was dry, nicely perched for what came next! I

soak in the gasoline, then dried up to absorb the gasoline

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