Chapter 167

I awoke from a troubled sleep plagued by monsters all bearing my face. I'd fled the scene of my crime, haunted by the sound of Caelan's sobs and feeling the heavy weight of shame pressing down upon me and dogging my every step. I couldn't erase my words and I couldn't run from what I had done. There was no escaping my cruelty and I was horrified at my actions, horrified that I was capable of being so heartless and so brutal. What the Hell had happened to me? Was I so desperate to escape this place that I was willing to sacrifice Caelan's life in order to be free? She was crazy and dangerous, of that I was certain, but that didn't mean she deserved what I'd done. When I reached the bedroom, I had been relieved that Lucius wasn't there. I couldn't have faced those blue eyes that saw too much. Instead, I had crawled onto the bed and lay there alone, with ravens beating their wings against my body until finally, exhausted, I had succumbed to a torturous slumber. I wasn't sure