Chapter 209

Devlin's POV

Her eyes were boring into mine as if she was searching for answers, for anything that could give her an explanation for everything I've done. In her eyes, I could see how she still refused to own up to her own flaws, how she was still very blind to her shortcomings, all she saw was me, my darkness, our differences.

But all I saw was the both of us.

I saw us both for who we really are.

Two fucked up people that actually couldn't be any more alike.

"What I had needed was a mother," I shook my head slowly, with enough display of disappointment for her to see, "now I don't need anything from you".

She shook her head and grabbed my arm, "there must be something you want, why are you doing this? Why are you after my destruction?"

I glanced at her fingers around my arm, I could feel how hard she was grabbing me and I could predict the result after such interaction.

Her fingers suddenly loosened and then she stepped back. With a deep breath in and a heavy one out, she said with a