There was no love left. Only hatred. Pure, irreconcilable hatred.
Selene, we were done.
I picked up a vase and hurled it. I didn’t expect it to hit Alaric, who had just walked in.
“Ahhh!”
“Ms. Selene! Alaric is in so much pain!”
His cry pierced the air like a siren and for the first time, Selene reacted. She shoved me hard, slamming me onto the coffee table.
Bang! The glass shattered and my body fell into the shards.
Blood seeped out, but I didn’t feel a thing.
Instead, I laughed. Bitterly.
I remembered the time I accidentally cut my finger while chopping vegetables for her.
She panicked so badly she nearly fainted. She rushed me to the hospital and demanded the best doctor treat a tiny wound.
Now?
Now she had poured every ounce of her love into someone else.
“Xavier, don’t take this too far.”
“I’ve been lenient with you because of your mother’s death. That doesn’t mean I don’t have a limit.”
“Hahaha… lenient?”
“You threw my father off a building and crippled him and that’s your idea of leniency?”
I stood up, letting the glass shards dig deeper into my skin.
I wanted the pain. I needed it. I needed to feel something that would kill the love I still had for her. It was time to draw the line.