Chapter 42

"I'll leave, I don't want to hurt you any further," he buried his face in my chest, Genevieve looked at me lovingly from over his back.

Rube ran to grab on her leg like always. I wondered if he heard what she said about him. She plans to leave him. Maybe with Puck? But still, how cruel, my wife couldn't abandon anything, except me.

The giant mechanisms made me shudder, watching the giant rock face open before me. Queen Nuli Adrianne, Zed, and Obsidian watched me from behind. Zed's gun pointed at me in case anything happened.

Standing intimately close was the husk of whatever was left of Scarleth. Covering his maimed hand inside his jacket, shivering like a dog, with deep bags under his pink, puffy eyes.

"Go forth into the flatland and never return.

You have brought shame to Wren, and to Nuli. SHAME HIM!" she pronounced.