4 YEARS EARLIER
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THE LULL OF THE NIGHT IS A promising demise as her heart drums an ominous beat.
Everything is silent; the cottage, her tears, her agony, her pain.
Someplace somewhere water droplets slither down a metal basin, the constant drip drip drip of its movement ringing in her ears alongside the swish swish swish of the curtains swaying from the wind.
Mellisa's gaze settles on the letter in her bloodied hand, flickers to her mate lying motionlessly on her lap.
A gaping hole replaces the place where a dagger had been etched, the dagger she'd pulled out from deep within Ryan's heart.
Her chest feels empty, her heart dead.
Crimson puddle circles around both of their forms but all she does is stare voidly at the contents scrawled in elegant cursive handwriting over the crumpled piece of paper resting on her fisted palm.
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Your husband slain.
Your children taken away, but for how long? A mother's heart is always with her child.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
The best of conquerors is the one who conquers it all. The chosen one.
I'll be waiting for you, ultimate queen.
~Thanatos.
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Thanatos. Thanatos. Thanatos.
The person who bore that name had stolen Lysander and Elian away from her. They were both but four years old and a just-born. They were but her little babies.
The person who bore that name had killed her mate; shattered her heart into two, and wrecked her soul by taking her other half away from her forever.
What did he want from her? Why didn't he take her? Why Ryan? Why Lysander and Elian? Why wait for her?
She felt like she was drowning in an abyss of endless fire. She couldn't breathe, couldn't think, couldn't utter a single word.
Numbness seeped into her bones and she welcomed it like an old friend returning to meet.
Thanatos Thanatos Thanatos.
She vows,
I'm going to kill you. I'm going to destroy you even if I have to destroy myself.
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Poor Mellisa🥲
Y'all got any theories
what the note is about?👀
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FantasyMellisa Castellejo's revenge only included finding and capturing Thanatos, the shadow creature who killed her mate and has her little sons with him. But when circumstances has her careening directly into Thanatos' kingdom with the help of Emerick...
