Wicked Intentions by CE Guard

Author:CE Guard [Guard, CE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CE Guard

I hardly recognize myself when Jax lifts me up to set me on the counter in the bathroom. One look at the blood splattered face of the girl in the mirror, and a shudder of revulsion sweeps through me. I’m not sorry that I hurt her; I only wish that I’d done it in a way that didn’t dredge up a thousand horrible memories. The Vale I see in the mirror looks far too much like the broken girl I was before Gran’s death.

“You could have ordered her to leave or to freeze and called for help,” he says as he wets a cloth and begins to scrub the blood mercilessly from my skin.

“I know that,” I say, and my voice sounds hollow, like seeing Vivien has scooped out my core and left me nothing but a shell. Or maybe I did that to myself when I let my violent thoughts rule my actions.

“Then why didn’t you?” he asks, and surprisingly, I don’t hear any judgment in his voice. He almost sounds relieved that I didn’t play the damsel in distress.

“Because whatever punishment the Roanokes would have inflicted wasn’t enough,” I answer honestly. I don’t have a single regret. If anything, I wish I’d ordered her to be quiet so I could have punished her longer.

He snorts, his thumb brushing against my lip so softly that I nearly moan and lean into his touch. “You know that Gregory and Elvira have two of the most painful gifts known to mage kind, right?”

“It’s not enough,” I insist. It will never be enough. Not for what she’s done to me. He can’t possibly understand how deeply rooted my hatred for her is.

His lips quirk up at the corner as he renews his scrubbing. “You could have killed her, you know. Would it bother you if you had?”

I frown, my mind racing as I try to find a way to answer that. The answer is simple, and we both know it, but Gran’s words haunt me. Good girls shouldn’t want others to suffer, to die. Revenge is for the wicked, and I know that it’s wrong.

“I think that Vivien has dedicated her life to sin and that her actions have consequences. No amount of repenting will save her now,” I say slowly, my throat tight with the words I want to say but can’t. Not yet.

He hums and sets the bloody cloth in the sink. “Do me a favor, Green Eyes… Next time you want someone dead, let me do the killing, all right? These pretty hands of yours are going to take weeks to fully heal.”

I glance down at them and grimace. My knuckles are a bloody mess, and when I try to move my fingers, they ache so bad that I have to bite my tongue so that I don’t cry out from the pain. “Shit,” I gasp. I won’t be climbing for a few days at least, not that I haven’t climbed with broken bones before; if I’d stopped every time Gran broke a rib or a finger, I’d never have been able to climb.

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