Chapter 102

  Beautiful Monster

  While she kneeled over the Death Dealer’s body, Tessa rested her chin on her hand and poked at its arm with her knife. “Not so fucking tough now, are you?”

  As she continued to spew insults at her kill, her disgraced uncle slithered away out the front door. “That felt so good; I ought to bring you back so I can do it again.”

  Rafik understood every creature has a role to play in the grand scheme of things. As he watched her slice through the Death Dealer, it became clearer what Tessa’s place in the order of beings was.

  The scientist in him fell even more in love with her when she loomed over her conquest like a beautiful monster, his perfect specimen of nature’s seduction and destruction.