Chapter 91 A Monster's Heart: Part Two

• My hand shoots out, hitting pause before Haden can finish his sentence, though we both know what comes next. The sudden silence feels deafening, broken only by the sound of my unsteady breathing and Efrem’s measured footsteps as he enters the room.
• I should feel guilty, being caught like this in his chair, watching something I’m not sure I was meant to see. But all I can feel is the hollow ache in my chest, the echo of his words playing over and over in my mind.
• “We all know what she is. What she’ll always be.”