Gloom

Chapter 288

I wasn't sure how I had gotten to Nat's house. I also had no idea why I was now lying in bed in the room Khaius had shown me the other time, the one where he mentioned that Nat wanted it to be for me. But it was the least of it.

In those moments, that didn't matter.

He could handle the bruises. I could handle the bruises, the unsightly scabs, and the wounds on my skin, and I was sure that if I'd had a broken bone, I could have handled it too. Not easily, of course, but I would have managed.

However, with what Mabrax and Naamáh did to my friends, not with that. With everything they said to humiliate me and make me feel like shit, I couldn't handle that .

I did not understand Mabrax's revelation, what he had told about me to that Asmodeus, because the moment he mentioned it, the demons around me became upset. And that only seemed to mean that, far from having freed ourselves from a problem, we had entered into a much bigger one.

I couldn't handle the reality that I caused my parents'