Fortunately for him, he released her before I lost my fucking mind and launched myself at him. I wanted his death more keenly than anything I’d ever desired and the way he was watching me said he was well aware of the fact. But it didn’t matter because he’d placed the only woman I’d ever loved between us and he knew my hatred for him would never outweigh my love for her. She was a shield unlike any other he could have constructed against me, and I was tamed by his control over her just as surely as she was by the shadows that had corrupted her.
