CHAPTER 11
CULMINATION
I SLEW MONSTERS AS WELL AS FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS. Their blood was on my hands. There was no reversal for what I’d done. Ava was right: no one made it out of Lemuria alive, and just like her, I died. The person I became was dead.
Whether it was love or infatuation, Azazel awakened every destructive force within me.
I’d started out as a young woman naïve of her surroundings, but who had followed her heart to stardom, only to be transformed into a monster by an inescapable dark force. Just like Eve, I partook of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, my eyes opened and innocence snatched. What good had this knowledge I had gleaned from the serpent done me? It destroyed me. I desired beyond anything that I could be in the bliss of my own ignorance again. I was exiled from w
