32 - Loose Ends

~Ben’s Point of View~

When my great grandfather was killed, by his own grandson’s hand, his mate swore vengeance. But how? Both my parents were killed during those couple of insane days. While I tell myself I remember it all, some of it just blends together. Many parts are black holes in my memory. Some is just what others have told me.

All together, seventy-four died including most of my family. You’d think no one would trust me, that I’d be the last person to take the reins and rule, but quite the opposite. I had so much to prove. They were hardly my sins to atone for, but I always felt the albatross around my neck regardless.

No one could bear to kill Georgia, but she’d gone mad, rightfully so. In ancient times, she’d have been turned to stone. Be let out after a few hundred years once she’d calmed down. But I refused. She’d lost her true fated mate, she had every right to her feelings, even as a child I understood that.

She took on another life form, in another realm. She’d li