Chapter 265

Tatiana

Giovanni was a fool to think he ever controlled me.

He was a fool to think that he could ever have anything over me.

The fucking bastard who thought that he could have any hold over me…

He thought that by giving me space to breathe, by pretending to share his power, that I would stay loyal. That I would stay his. But I am not something to be kept. I refused to allow him to do that again. I refused to allow him the sense of power or the sense to think that he had any power over me.

I no longer needed him and I was making it obvious to him and to everyone else. And I was not going to stop. I was going to make sure that everyone understood that I did not want or need his presence.

The mist swirled around me, thicker now, alive with the screams of those I’d taken. The dark forest bent to my will, roots twitching beneath the soil like my own tendons.

“They failed me. My own daughter managed to turn her back on me. She is soft, gent