CHAPTER 104

ADRIAN

The hall was dead quiet, pin drop silence. All the guards looked at each other, silently demanding explanation from one another. They had long abandoned me and already forgotten about the punishment they wanted to impose. Veronica on the other hand, had become white, dead white and her eyes mirrored shock, she looked disbelievingly at me. The sword she was holding had long slipped from her grasp. She parted her lips, to soeak but no words seemed to roll off her tongue.

I smiled. For the first fucking time in a long while, I stretched my lips, showing off my set of teeth. It was time. The deed was just half way but I already breathed so much better already. Veronica was dead meat and there was nothing she could do about it now. She had no escape.

She looked around the hall, her hair whipping from one direction to another, obviously looking for a way out when the loud noises and cries began. The hall negan to fill with murmurs and gasps at the realization of what was happening