Nights Burn With Regret — by Nathan Perez 183
Chapter 183
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Nora’s crying only grew worse, hysterical now, her breaths coming out sharp and uneven. She lifted her head again, eyes bloodshot and unfocused, staring at me like I was cruel.
“I-I’m sorry-” she tried again, but she didn’t finish, because her body gave out. Her eyes rolled back, her form swayed forward, and she collapsed.
For a brief moment, the entire room froze.
“Oh my God, she fainted!” Someone yelled. “Someone call a doctor.”
Matthew finally snapped out of his daze and rushed forward, dropping to her side with panic written all over his face. He called her name again and again, shaking her gently, but she didn’t respond. His jaw tightened as he carefully lifted her into his arms, holding her as if she were something fragile. As he stood up, he paused. Slowly, his gaze lifted to me.
I stood beside Hades, unimpressed by the scene in front me, my expression calm and unreadable. Matthew looked like he wanted to say something, but then his eyes flicked to Hades, whatever courage he had died instantly.
His body stiffened, his lips pressed together, and he looked away. Without another word, he turned and walked out, carrying Nora with him.
I rolled my eyes before I could stop myself.
Such a drama queen.
When I turned back around, I found three familiar figures staring at me.
My uncle, aunt, and Riley stood there frozen, shock written all over their faces, as if they were staring at something they had created but could no longer control. My aunt and Riley were especially pale, their bodies trembling, their eyes wide as if I were a ghost instead of a living person.
Fear suited them.
I glanced at Hades. “Give me a moment.”
He nodded immediately.
I looked down at Sebastian. He met my gaze and nodded too, his grip steady on the wheelchair, trusting me completely.
I turned back and walked toward them.
The moment my heels clicked closer, my aunt and Riley instinctively stepped back.
I stopped right in front of them.
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My uncle opened his mouth first, his voice stiff and strained, as if he already knew whatever he was about to say would change nothing. “Violet, you-”
I didn’t even bother looking at him. Instead, my gaze shifted calmly to my aunt, my eyes sharp as I asked in an almost casual tone, “Your brother, do you know where he is?”
The moment those words left my mouth, she froze completely. The color drained from her face in a heartbeat, her lips parting slightly as her breath caught in her throat, and when she finally managed to speak, her voice came out hoarse, filled with disbelief. “It… it was you?”
I tilted my head slightly as I answered in a calm voice that contrasted sharply with the meaning of my words. “You should be thanking me, Aunt. At least your brother will rot for the rest of his useless life in a mental asylum.”
“How dare you-”
“If I had told my husband about what he did, you know he wouldn’t even be breathing right now.”
That single sentence was enough to silence her completely. She didn’t argue or protest, because she knew I was telling the truth.
Hades would murder her brother if he knew what he did to me.
A few weeks ago, everything had already been decided. I went to Levi in secret and asked if he could make my uncle disappear without leaving a trace, and lock him away somewhere he could never escape from, somewhere isolation would gnaw at him until his mind slowly crumbled under the weight of fear.
A mental asylum was the perfect place where he would lose everything he once thought made him powerful.
Levi had wanted to tell Hades, and I had stopped him immediately, not because I cared about that bastard’s life but because I knew Hades too well. If my husband had found out, my uncle’s suffering would have ended far too quickly, and I didn’t want Hades to stain his hands over someone so insignificant. I wanted this punishment to be mine, carried out in my own way, slow enough to make every second feel like an eternity.
Even after my uncle disappeared, my aunt had likely never truly searched for him. He always had a habit of leaving whenever he wanted, staying away for days without explanation, so she probably convinced herself this was just another one of those times and chose not to ask questions.
Now, standing in front of me, she swallowed hard, her fingers trembling at her side as she forced herself to ask, “Violet… is he safe?”
“Safe? You might never even see his dead body.”
She gasped, while beside her my uncle and Riley stared at me as if they were looking at something inhuman. I felt no remorse at their reactions, because they were the ones who had shaped me into this person.
“Instead of worrying about someone else,” I continued, “you should start worrying about yourselves, because from now on, your lives are only going to get worse.”
My gaze moved slowly from Riley, to my aunt, and finally to my uncle, and for a brief moment my eyes softened when they landed on him. “Divorce her and cut ties with them, before it’s too late, uncle.”
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He opened his mouth, desperation flashing across his face, clearly about to beg or explain or offer excuses I had already heard countless times, but I turned away before he could say another word. I didn’t want to hear his pleas, because my mind was already made up.
I was going to destroy them all without mercy, and anyone who dared to stand in my way would fall with them.
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