Trigger Warning: This chapter may include explicit s****l content. Please read at your own risk. Thank you!
VALERIE
I moved slowly into Xavier’s shower, turning the water on as hot as I could manage, and letting it burn me down to the bone. It felt like the only way I could gather myself. The only way I could pull myself together.
I was a monster. That was the only explanation for what had happened today. I was a monster with a sudden, unwelcomed desire for blood. The desire to kill and m**m. And I did it so naturally, like I’d done it a hundred times before.
I stood, watching the blood leave my body and sweep down the drain. It seemed unending, that blood. Always, when I thought I’d washed it clean, more would appear, curling around my leg and vanishing down the drain.
I closed my ey
