DOMINIC
I blankly stared down at the clock on the phone screen. 22:00. Two hours left to strike midnight and this day would be officially over.
The day I was supposed to get married.
The day Lilliana would have been my wife.
The day that would have marked the beginning of a lifetime for us.
Closing my eyes, I heaved a long exhale and propped my head against the headboard. Even though the curtained darkness of closed lids, it was her face was floated in—over and over again. It was the first time I realized that I might wear the skin of a monster, but my heart was still human. And I belonged to her.
The pain that hit me came in waves. It clawed under my skin, infused with the blood in my veins, and drilled into the marrow of my bones until the ache made me hollow inside out.
I tried t
