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Tears dropped from Ky’s eyes I was about to speak when someone moved past me

Lilah

"Ky, baby," Lilah cried softly Ky lifted his head He turned his face away fro down, she wrapped her arainst Lilah’s chest

"Shh," she soothed I stood up to walk away Lilah reached for my arm "I will tell Mae and Maddie, I pro" She paused, then added, "But let Mae enjoy this day She deserves to be happy without worry Because she orry for me, she always doesit will break her heart"

I nodded my head and mouthed, "I’m sorry" Lilah smiled, then turned back to her husband,mess in his wife’s ar within ht Those cult fuckers hadn’t paid for doing that to his woh They hadn’t paid for what they’d done to Mae--hell, for little Maddie, too

The sound of laughter hither inarms I pulled her from her seat, only to slip beneath her and reposition her on my lap I wrapped my arms around her as she and Beauty talked My hands found their way to her storainy i like shit for er I stared, the rew Grew for the fucks that had tortured our woain, I would kill slowly and painfully I’d give them what they deserved I’d send the hell where they belonged

Chapter Six

Rider

Every part of my body tensed as Harmony spoke those words I aht, her confession circling laps around my head No, no no! My stomach formed into a black hole as we fell into a heavy silence My deep breathing sounded like thunder as it bounced off the floor where I lay Idalene flashed across ht back to when I told him ere all dooht much of it at the time, but

He had another Cursed Sister of Eve to fulfill the great prophecy

No, not again I pressed my palposition

I shuffled closer to the gap and restedthe darkness that had resided in h my every vein My spine was stiff andme in its enizable topause, then she replied, "I ao anywhere else"

My chest tightened at how sad she sounded, how completely defeated I did not know the woman, but I did not care She had been the first person I had ever spoken to without an agenda, without the heavy cloud of ue and actions She did not know me as the destined prophet She did not know men brother She knew me as the unseen prisoner--a cast-out sinner just like her

"Harainst the hard wall I felt closer to her by doing this I iined what she looked like on the other side She would be beautiful Every Cursed I had seen was unrivaled in beautyunrivaled in beauty but racked with pain and self-hatred I knew that now They were called Cursed because Prophet David deemed their beauty too irresistible to the odly