The tension between all of us was explosive. Aurelius had just watched the love of his life snap his mother’s neck while he restrained her. I had just watched his mother kill Walter. It was the same as him doing it as far as I was concerned. My patience was running thin. I didn’t like the way he looked at her. But even worse, I didn’t like the way my pet looked at him. Especially now. I thought the goddess was devious and enrapturing before, but now? Now I was infatuated beyond anything the realms have ever seen. How was it possible to be so completely bewitched by a human? I called her pet,
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