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I didn’t want to be here.
My head pounded.
I didn’t want to pretend the world was fine when it wasn’t.
My hands gripped my head, fingers pressing hard, trying to stop the growing ache.
You won’t get another chance.
My fist shot out, hitting the metal door so hard it dented. A blistering pain shot from my knuckles and ricocheted into my wrist. I yanked my hand back, looking at the broken skin. Blood dripped between my fingers, the cuts not mending. They were damaged and split wide open, like the rest of me. Maybe this was what I looked like on the inside—cut open and bleeding.
“What’s her issue?” I heard the other girls snicker and whisper before their shoes clicked across the floor, and they hurried out.
I left the stall, examining my hand as I walked to the sink. I turned the water on and hissed when the cold hit my knuckles, my entire hand throbbing. Glancing up at my reflection, I froze, my eyes meeting those of someone I had not seen in ages.
“Hello, Dianna.”
Fifty-Seven
Dianna
I placed my hands on the edge of the sink and stared at her in the mirror. “Long time no see.”
She bared her teeth in a smile and folded her arms. “I heard you don’t have your powers anymore. That must suck.”
“You know, I thought I saw you out there.” I stood a bit straighter. “A flicker of strawberry blonde hair. I thought I was just insane, but then I smelled that overpriced perfume. Even without my powers, you reek.”
She snarled and lunged. My head hit the sink hard enough that I saw stars. She tightened her grip on my hair, yanking my head up, her canines bared as she hissed in my face.
“You killed him. You killed them all.”
She tossed me, my back hitting the nearest wall and knocking the breath out of me. I slid to the floor, feeling warm liquid pour from my scalp and down my face.
Seraphine stood before me, claws out and ready to rip me to shreds. Golden blonde curls fell over her shoulders and down her back—Drake’s fated lover.
“You have to be more specific. I’ve killed a lot of people.”
She snarled and charged. I guess I could have moved, ducked between her legs as she advanced, but then what? Fight the several vampires that stood around the bathroom? I’d never make it. I had no powers. Then there was the darker part of me that didn’t want to fight. I could just let it all end here.
Seraphine grabbed me by the throat and lifted me off my feet.
“How could you?”
Her fist connected with my jaw hard enough that my teeth punctured the inside of my cheek.
“It was pretty easy, really,” I said as blood filled my mouth. I smiled through the pain. “Would you like me to draw you a picture?”
The next punch split my lip, and the third made the world spin.
I wrapped my hand around her wrist, spitting the blood that pooled in my mouth onto the floor. “Is that it? All you have for your dead ex-lover is a few measly punches? Gods, Seraphine, how basic are you? Disembowel me, at least.”
She tossed me into the large mirror, and it shattered. I fell to the floor, glass raining down around me. I groaned and rolled over. Seraphine reached down and yanked me to my feet by my blood-soaked hair.
“Hair pulling Seraphine? Are you trying to flirt with me?”
Another toss, and I groaned as I slid to a stop near the feet of one of her guards. He stared down at me but made no move to stop me as I struggled to get to my feet. Seraphine’s foot connected with my gut, lifting me off the floor with the force of the kick.
