Chapter 106. I Was Going to Kill Seraphina

Athena

"But Jess wasn't weak," he said, almost conversationally. 

"She was healthy. Strong. She wouldn't have gone into labor early on her own. But your precious Seraphina made sure she did. She put it right in her tea, in her seat, smiling while Jess drank it."

My breath caught in my throat. The basement felt smaller suddenly, the walls pressing in from all sides. I could hear my heartbeat in my ears, loud and erratic.

"You're lying."

The words came out weak, barely a whisper. Even as I said them, something deep in my chest told me he wasn't lying at all.

The way he stood there, so casual, so sure of himself, this wasn't the posture of someone spinning tales.

He was a monster, a demon in human form.

He crouched so close I could feel his breath against my cheek, warm and sickening.

"No. I was there," he said with a grin that made me want to claw his face until there was nothing left. 

"I watched a