“I told women I loved them so they’d come to bed with me,” he said quietly, his eyes still closed as he confessed to the night. “And one of them happened to be a hateful witch who doesn’t know the meaning of forgiveness. She ripped away my magic, leaving only a pittance, and cursed me to be used by women the way I had used her. And then she took my lies and cursed my lips so that I could never escape.”

