CHAPTER 40
MARSI stared at Mom in horror.
Nothing but bones. Nothing but eyes as dark and as deadly as Nyx’s. Nothing but hatred and anger toward me. They had raised her from the dead and made her into a monster—a f*****g monster. How could they have done such a thing?
Before I could react, Mom lunged at me and swiped sharp claws across my face diagonally. I stood silent and unmoving, not wanting to lay a hand on my mother. I had cried and begged for years for her to come back.
Now, I would have to kill her. It was the only way.
“Mom,” I whispered as she continued to cut through my flesh. “Mom, it’s me.”
Yet she didn’t care as she slashed and cut and bruised and broke her own son. She didn’t even recognize me, and I didn’t blame her for it. It had been over a damn decade since I’d la
