65. His Delusion

SKYLA.

I’m about to say something when I feel a wisp of air swirl around me. She’s leaving! Although I know she’ll remain in a way, I won’t ever get to talk to her again and oddly, that fills me with sorrow.

‘I won’t fail you.’

‘I believe you won’t. I have faith in you, my Lioness.’ Her words seem to echo inside of me and my eyes flash as I feel something like a sharp zing rush through me.

It affects my arms, and my head and it’s intense on my stomach and back.

My eyes blaze and I stare in the mirror at my now cat-like eyes before I close them, not wanting the women to notice them.

I won’t fail you like your people, Bastet.

She’s gone.

The moment I felt that touch, I felt it. She’s still with me, but not in the way she has been until now.

Now all I have left is what she has given me and hoped for from me.

I won’t fail her.

“There, we are all done,” Lenora says,

I stare in the mirror. The woman in front of me is not me, but an image of the ideal woman in the eyes of Aleric.