I had never seen so much blood at once. The once white marble floor was stained with a pool of crimson liquid and it wasn’t just that man, Soren’s aid. There were others. Two other men I recognized that used to be among Gideon’s close circle.
They knelt naked, some of them missing fingers. With cuts all over their body.
And behind Gideon, behind it all, Blake stood by his side, Rosalie stood on his other side. And the other men in his close circles were all there, they watched him as he took that man’s life. Not that he didn’t deserve it but I’d never seen something like that.
My whole body was shaking. Gideon approached me, slowly, an apologetic look in his eyes. He tried to reach for me but I flinched away from the blood on his hands.
Hurt crossed through Gideon’s eyes and he took
