Chapter 251 Betrayal

KALEB

I diligently stood in front of my mother’s grave solemnly, and after staring at the ornately carved slab in the ground, I began to dust off the stone. This was my first visit in quite some time, and the thick coating of grime on the stone was greater than it had been in a while. I normally didn’t allow it to get this bad, but as of late, things had been infinitely busy, and I rarely had a moment alone.

As I cleaned it, I pondered the state of things and then allowed myself to consider my mother. Ever since she died, I’d never had a nightmare about her passing or otherwise. Nor had I after I’d killed all of my siblings and most of my cousins. Not even when I’d ended my father’s life.

I wasn’t afraid of ghosts or gods. I wasn’t afraid of punishment from the Moon Goddess for the acts I’d committed in the past.

But last night, I had a nightmare, one that I couldn’t shake. It was haunting my thoughts and bleeding into the waking world so vividly it made me uneasy.

In my dream, I saw