Chapter 170

Delilah

I sat alone in the Infirmary, the silence of it making my heart ache with each passing moment. I ran my finger over the bandage, grazing it, ignoring the pain that I felt. It was a distraction from what I wanted to think about, from that girl who sobbed from her in my arms. The gentle gaze that I looked at her with.

It was enough to remind me of that day. That moment. The blood. The silence. And the absence.

A soft shiver rippled down my spine.

The room around me began to blur as a memory took its place, one I had fought so long to bury. One that I did my best not to think about, to pretend that never existed.

[Flashback]

I was eighteen. Barely old enough to understand the weight of life, let alone its loss.

I was barely old enough to understand what I carried over my shoulders. All I wanted was the revenge that I was growing up to live for. That he raised me to now.

The room had been cold, sterile, with the sour smell o