VALERIA

"What... what are you doing? I’ll scream..." Her pupils dilated with fear, and her heart pounded wildly.

"And after seeing me, after witnessing what I become, how dare you have the audacity to blackmail me, you miserable old hag? Do you want to end up like your son?"

My rough voice growled close to her, the dark energy inside me surging, the urge to kill rising again.

But I couldn’t do it here; everyone would find out, and she knew that too.

"If anything happens to me, someone else will