Chapter 58

Through our bond, conflicting emotions were raging through him. For a moment, I thought I sensed anxiousness, maybe even regret, coming from him before they were all suddenly cut off as if his emotions had never even been there in the first place. When he opened his eyes, they were cold and unsympathetic. My breath hitched.

“Because I don’t care what has to be done or who I have to destroy as long as at the end of the day, I get what I want.” He stepped out of my hands and looked down at me with a raised brow. My hands dropped slowly as I looked at him, feeling as if something in me broke at his answer.

“My mistake, Vivian, was not showing you who I’m known to be. My mistake was trying to be someone who you’d be happy to spend the rest of your life with. I’ve been playing in pretense while dealing with danger on the sidelines. I’ve let you walk on the blind side, showing you the kind and caring Zaliver. But the truth is, once a monster, always a monster. I’m like a loaded gun made for