Page 8 of Savage Throne
Sure.
But I’d been absolutely devastated, traumatized, and so fucked up in the head that I knew I wasn’t completely normal.
However. . .after that day of violence and death, I didn’t need my father to stand next to me anymore. I had garnered his concept of power.
The East feared me.
And since that day, no one questioned my strength.
And not many dared to challenge me.
But. . .what is his plan for her?
Moni wasn’t born into this violent world. She wasn’t shaped by it the way I was. She wasn’t meant to endure this kind of darkness, this violence.
How will he make her powerful?
It scared the hell out of me because I knew my father would teach her something fucked up and there would be no normal way for him to do it. His form of education broke the person down until there was nothing left but the pieces of what they once were. Then, he’d build the person back up in the image he wanted.
I can’t let that happen.
I looked back down.
TT was watching me. In fact. . .I was pretty sure she had been staring at me the whole time as I tried to figure out what was going on in my father’s head.
She’s not a typical little girl. I knew that when I first met her but now. . .I understand that even more.
I leaned my head to the side. “Tell me something.”
She quirked her little brows. “Yes?”
“Are you studying me?”
“Yes.” She blinked. “I’m sorry. Sometimes I do that.”
“It’s fine.”
“My teacher said I shouldn’t because it is rude.”
“You actuallyshoulddo it in the East. The more you know about a person, the better.”
“That’s what your father said, when he caught me studying him.”
“I bet.” I ran my fingers through my hair. “TT, when he talked about making Moni more powerful what were hisexactwords?”
“He said that she would need to be truly initiated into the Four Aces.”
No.
I closed my eyes and tried to stay as calm as possible.
There would be some form of death. That’s the only way we initiate.
That was what it always came down to with my father.
His idea of power was death. How one dealt it, how one survived it, and how one used it to control others.
Moni would have to face an initiation dealing with death.
