Everything changes and I know nothing will ever be the same again as I gaze into those bright brown eyes of my girl.
Her head sits in the box, her eyes open with terror gazing back at me, blood stains her cheeks as tears run down mine and my soul weeps.
They killed her.
She’s dead. My worst fears have come to light. Massimo and Dominic are saying something, but I can’t hear them. One of them holds me. I don’t know which. I don’t know anything. Time has frozen and it’s like I’m watching a nightmare unfold before my eyes.
Except it’s not a nightmare. This is real. It’s what happens in the darkness of my world.
This is what Mortimer Viggo does to anyone who crosses him.
I couldn’t save Alyssa. I couldn’t keep her safe.
My soul weeps, then dies.
Darkness fills the void as the last traces of the man I was fade away into the ether and the beast takes his place.
Darkness comes and so does the thirst for vengeance.