Chapter 133: Sealed Lips, Fate

Victor’s POV

My mother used to tell me that to kiss a witch would be to seal your fate. I had never understood what she had meant until now. The idea that there would be something the witch would want, that I would have to give her, in order to have her help us had never left my mind.

And now, as I felt her cold lips on mine, I wondered if this was going to be worth it all in the end.

Flashes of something ran across my mind. I was there and here all in one, something like a dreaded dream, like a nightmare come to life. I didn’t know if I was on the brink of death, but it felt as though it caressed my arm, its nails dragging up and down like the embrace of a lover.

I felt my heart grow pale, and for a moment, my lungs were on fire. Like I had been running all my life.

“What is it that you seek?”