Chapter 160: Envy And Endings

"Betrayer!" We spun, saw Pain staring at us, her face filled with jealousy and madness. "My lord, have you forgotten what she has done?"

Gwynn hesitated, a flicker of his rage returning. "Shaylee?"

She left me for a moment, her grief so powerful she could barely act. I fumbled around inside my head for a way to keep him with me, anything that would stem the rising fury in his face, the return of the flames.

"I remember," he snarled at me, the lightning flickering back to life. "Your treachery, your blood curse. I remember." He turned to Pain. "Cydia, my thanks."

Shaylee surged back, took control of me. "No, my lord." Our voice shook with so much passion I wanted to cry and hug him. "She lies now as she did so long ago. Don't you remember?"

Pain's laughter was horrible to hear. "Don't listen to her, great lord," she hissed in his ear, jerking free of the exhausted Quaid to sidle up to Gwynn, her hate jabbing at me like a weapon. "She told me herself how she could never love one suc