“Dorian, if you act on impulse, you’ll never see Ahe again in this life.”
She meant it and she followed through. I searched everywhere but could not find my sister.
Kneeling before her like a beaten dog, in front of countless media, I lowered my head in apology, publicly confessing and apologizing to her and Lucian.
“It was Selene who drugged Lucian to seduce him and I deliberately interfered in their relationship…”
Seeing the confession they twisted and forced me to write, I had wanted to run away.
Vivienne leaned close and played a vague voice recording of my sister.
“Dorian… so cold…”
I clenched my teeth and admitted everything.
***
People in the audience casted looks of disdain and mockery at me, as if watching a circus act.
I didn't even know how I left that banquet. I only wanted to see with my own eyes that my sister was safe.
But the caretaker at the nursing home told me that after seeing the video of me kneeling, my sister had cried to go out and look for me… and disappeared.
When I saw my sister again, she had already become a cold, lifeless corpse.
Her body was filthy and battered and even at her last breath she had clutched tightly the paper plane I loved to play with as a child.