My hand slapped Lina's cheek hard. The loud crack echoed in the quiet room. A thin line of red appeared on her mouth. "Hmm," I thought, a quiet hum in my chest. "That's how I like it."
Seeing her flinch, the quick pain in her big eyes, made me feel a strange thrill. How dare a human girl, a nobody, not listen to me? The nerve of her. The sheer rudeness. Since I couldn't have my own fated mate alive with me, since that terrible fate stuck to me like a rotting cloth, every single girl, every weak female, should pay for it. They were all part of the cruel joke played on me. A curse, a bad twist of fate, put on me because of them, because they even existed.
Lina lay on the floor, like a crumpled mess of cream silk and lost innocence. It was a sad sight. Her tears started to fall, hot and fas
