Chapter 24. Goblet

ALICIA CHAY

When it ended, he rose to his feet, helping me rise to mine. He was my height now. My neck hurt from looking at a ten-foot-tall owl.

“I didn’t mean to interrupt what you were saying just before we made love.”

“Interrupt me how?”

“You said you know what was on my heart.”

“Yes, I do.”

“How?”

“I know what was on your heart when you caught your loved ones deceiving you because I was the bat that turned you. And good thing you didn't look back when your story started in Asia. Had you looked over your shoulder you would have met me sooner for I was standing behind you the entire time.”

The breath left my body. I began to shake with betrayal and rage. “You’re my Maker…?”

“I still feel the ice of your eyes as I flew into your mouth and into your heart. My intent was to slaughter you, but the weight of your pain and heartbreak won me over and I let you live.”

I slit his throat and pushed him off the clouds. It was a knee