‘I’m Marcus’s son, Blackwood blood, but what did I get?
I remained silent for a moment. “That wasn’t my fault.”
“Not your fault? Then whose fault was it?”
“You enjoyed everything that should have belonged to both of us! You never learned to share!”
“But what I can’t stand most is… you even get true love!”
“Why? Why do you have everything and still get perfect love?”
I stood up, looking down at him. “Want to know a secret?”
Lucian looked at me warily. “What secret?”
“Remember what I told you after Sable and I broke up?”
Lucian frowned. “You said she wasn’t your true love… you said you didn’t love her…”
I smiled coldly. “I lied.”
Lucian’s eyes widened. “What?”
“I’ve never loved another woman. Those words were lies to protect Sable.”
Lucian’s face went pale. “No… impossible…”
“Sable Crawford is my fated mate, my only queen for life.”
“I broke up with her to protect her from your harm.”
I’d rather suffer than see her hurt again.”
Lucian began trembling. “You… you deceived me…”
Now you understand. You weren’t getting revenge on me. You were helping me.”
“Because every time you tried to hurt Sable, it made me more certain she was my everything.”
“Every separation made me treasure our time together more.”
Lucian suddenly burst into hysterical laughter. “Hahaha… hahaha…”
“I’m an idiot! I’m a goddamn fool!”
He thrashed wildly, trying to grab a warrior’s weapon.
“Let me die! Let me die! I don’t deserve to live in this world!”
I kicked him away. “Want to die? It won’t be that easy.”
I stopped Lucian’s suicide attempt. “You don’t get to choose how you
“You hurt Sable. You think dying casually will atone for that?”
Lucian screamed in despair. “Then what do you want?!” die.”
“I want you to experience the pain Sable went through. Slowly. Bit by bit.”
1 picked up one of Melissa’s photographs and slowly tore it apart in front of Lucian.
“No!” Lucian struggled desperately. “Please! Don’t hurt her pictures!”
“This is how I felt when you hurt Sable,”
I picked up the pearl necklace and cut the string, letting each pearl drop to the ground one by one.
Each falling pearl made Lucian shudder with agony.
I signaled to the warriors. The him to the headstone.”
They bound Lucian with silver chains against Melissa’s gravestone.
I drew a silver dagger coated with concentrated wolfsbane and slowly carved the first wound across Lucian’s chest.
Blood trickled down the cut as laucian bit back a cry of pain.
The second cut appeared on Lucian’s left arm, the third on his right leg.
I crouched in front of Lucian. “You know what? Sable almost died.”
“Now I’ll let you experience that despair.”
I pushed the dagger slowly into Lucian’s abdomen, avoiding vital organs, letting him bleed slowly.
“But I won’t let you die too quickly. I want you to die slowly, painfully.”
Lucian’s breathing became labored. “Caelan… please… just end it…”
“Mercy? Did you show Sable mercy?”
As time passed, Lucian’s voice grew weaker.
“I… I was wrong… I was really wrong…”
“Caelan… maybe… maybe in another world… we could be real brothers…”
I looked at him silently, the dagger hovering over Lucian’s heart.
Lucian’s eyes were growing dim, but suddenly, he smiled strangely.
“But… before I die… I want to bless you…”
I frowned. “What?”
Lucian’s voice became ethereal and eerie. “I bless you and Sable… eternal happiness…”
“Especially Sable… that kind, beautiful girl…”
Lucian’s smile became more disturbing. “I wonder… if she knew…”
“Knew what?” I felt a chill of unease.
Lucian used his last strength, his voice like a ghostly whisper. “If she knew… the man she married…”
‘Is the person she hates most… what would she think?”
My face went white. Lucian’s smile froze on his face as the light left his eyes completely.
Edward approached, “Your Majesty, it’s finished.”
‘Bury him here. No headstone.”
Tet him stay with his mother forever. Maybe death will give him the peace he never found in life.”
I carefully placed Melissa’s ashes back in the grave.
Deep in the village, Edward coordinated the final sweep. We’d been at this for hours-checking every corner where Lucian’s remaining allies might lurk.
“Check the barn again,” I ordered the nearest warrior. “Look for hidden compartments.”
The warrior nodded and jogged toward the weathered structure. I turned to watch Edward question an elderly villager near the well.
“Sir, we’re looking for anyone who might have helped a man named Lucian, Edward said, his tone patient but firm. “Any visitors in the past few weeks?”
The old man shook his head. “Only strangers were you folks.”
A shout came from the direction of the abandoned houses on the village outskirts. “Your Majesty! We found someone!”
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