CHAPTER 83 LUCIEN’S POV: It hurts. Everything hurts. No pain could compare to what I feel now. I don’t know why I have this feeling but it was just there; aching and always present, breaking at every words that sipped out from her mouth. Monster! A word I never knew was this powerful. To hear her call me a monster, to see the fear in her eyes as the fog of insanity cleared from mine. It was like the most painful injury I had ever experienced throughout my years in the land of the living. When I heard her say those words, when I had heard her say the words she thought me to be, it was like a spear aimed at my heart, shattering what little hope I had. Never in my thousand years of living had I experienced such pain from only a single word. Whatever pain imaginable, I had felt

