I stopped just a few feet away from her, my chest heaving. Her words playing in my mind as I remembered how Delilah was broken, about what she believed Ethan had said, about how Carter had reacted. It was her controlling him all along.
“I’m nothing like you.” I said, my tone darkening. “And I’m never going to be as like a person like you. I’m never going to allow myself to think that I’m going to share the same darkness that you do.”
Her head tilted slightly. “No?”
I glared at her, my voice sharp and cold. “I wish I’d never met you. I wish I’d never even known who you were. Had it been up to me, I would have wanted you to be carrying the same memory that I heard of you, the stories of your strength. This, whatever this is, this is not something that anyone saw in you. This is not the valuable woman that would have sacrificed everything for everyone, for family, for those that she valued. This is not that. You are not that person.”
Her face didn’t change. Not even a flicker of pain. Not even a shadow of regret.
“You think that changes anything?” she asked, her voice calm, her eyes glacial. “Do you really believe that you telling me this is going to change the reality of how things are? They’ve changed. Everyone changes. I changed too, because I saw the reality of things. I saw traitors among me, and I am choosing to draw my own path now, much like you’re supposed to.”
“You destroyed everything,” I hissed. “You took pieces of me I can’t ever get back. You hurt people I love. And the worst part? You don’t even care, do you? If you really think that you’re drawing your own path this way, then you are wrong. You are just breaking everything that you are touching.”
For a moment, she just… stared at me.
Then she smiled faintly.
“Care?” she said softly, almost mockingly. “No. I don’t care, Sienna. That is the main thing that I’m trying to do, break everything that I’m touching. Because when I had the chance to touch something, to care about something, no one seemed to see it. Now that I’m breaking it, everyone seems to see that it’s a big taboo. Well, guess what? Right now I don’t really care. I might have done so before, but I do not.”
“Well, prove me wrong, because it seems to me that you are already tasting what power feels like. It’s only a matter of time before you start allowing it to consume you.” She said, shrugging her shoulders. I went to attack her, but she shook her head, flickering her hand, stopping me from doing so. “Now, now, there’s still a lot to come and it’s still too early for me to be killing you. Now I want you to see this. I want you to see where this war ends and how it’s going to go. If you die, that’s not going to be possible now is it?”
I opened my mouth to speak, but she was gone in a blink, leaving me alone as everything started to clear out. Damon, who was standing perplexed, watching but almost paralyzed as she controlled everything that was around, rushed towards me.
“What just happened?” I whispered to him as he wrapped his arm around me.
“She just pulled the one card that she shouldn’t have.” He whispered. “Come on, we need to go back to the park. She just created a diversion. Now we’re going to need to see what she did through that diversion.”
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