Chapter 62: Hell

~Caspian’s POV ~

The warmth in her eyes... it was gone. Completely.

She stood in the center of the room barefoot, blood-splattered, her hair wild like a storm cloud. Around her lay the torn bodies of wolves...my wolves.

And she had ended them, just like that. I stared at her, unable to breathe.

How did she get so strong? Is that even Hazel anymore? The questions tore through my chest like claws.

She turned to me, slowly. And then she smiled.

It wasn’t her usual smile...the one that melted my heart. No... this was cruel.

"I’ve never felt this good," she said, her voice light and airy, like she was commenting on the weather.

"Maybe those babies being taken away from me... was the right thing, you know?"

My heart dropped. What?

Then she laughed. Hard. She grabbed her stomach like someone had said the funniest thing.

"Hazel..." I stepped forward slowly, cautiously. "What’s wrong with you?"

"Nothing, Caspian," she said, grinning wider now. "It’s me. Hazel. I just... can’t feel anything anymore. And it’s wonderful."

I blinked, stunned.

"But you’re...you’re talking like—why would you say something like that? About your children?"

She tilted her head, amused. "Say what? That my babies were taken away from me? That maybe it’s for the best?"

I flinched. She took a step toward me, barefoot in blood, and I instinctively stepped back.

"Ever since I got pregnant, everyone’s been whispering. Judging. Telling me what to do, what not to do, how to act, what to feel. Everyone’s been telling me whole lots of stuff."

Her voice cracked on that last word, but she quickly composed herself, wiping her bloodied hand down her arm.

"It’s an abomination, right?" she sneered. "Isn’t that what they said?"

"Hazel—"

"Even Cyrius said it," she cut in, her eyes flashing gold for a brief second. "That I should fear those babies. That they would be the very things that destroy me. And maybe... just maybe... he was right."

"No. No, don’t do this," I pleaded. "You don’t mean any of this. You’re in pain. You’ve been through too much, Hazel...just let me help you. Please."

turned away

whispered, and then her voice turned ice-cold. "But I can help

watched her clench her fists, blood dripping down her fingers

father... I’m going

promise, a prophecy...sent a chill down

did to me. For what he made me. For torturing me all these years, I’ll make him pay." Her chest rose and fell with

become this to get justice.

turned back to me. The smile had faded. Her face was

Caspian. The moment they took my babies... the

she walked past me. My mind was spinning, completely,

wasn’t my Hazel. It

her pain...now there was only

my legs buckled beneath me like snapped twigs. My wrist twisted

I breathed. "What the hell did she do to

had just thrown me across the room. Caspian. Her husband. And

my wolf to heal, but that wasn’t what made my chest tighten.

at me like I was a stranger. No...worse. Like I was

whispered, struggling to sit up. "Did she just wolf out?" But the full moon isn’t even

have a wolf. She had no

became something like a witch fixing the

witch? A werewolf? What the hell is

shouldn’t be happening. Hazel

Not now.

should be looking for

downstairs

Gilberts... they’ve been murdered." My

tracks and whipped around.

voice was low, dangerous, coiled like a predator mid-pounce. "No. I was supposed to kill

came

The guard hesitated. Then:

slaughtered them... including

instantly,

Hazel’s face cracked

trembled, not with grief,

"Who. did? It."

new voice echoed from

"Me."

see who it was and someone entered the

Covered in blood. Hands shaking. Eyes

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