Chapter 177: For What It’s Worth
The woman looked at me, studying my face as if there was an answer on it to a question that she didn’t ask.
"I was the first one created," she said at last. "Before everyone and everything else, there was him and me. And I was happy. But then he decided that I wasn’t enough. He wanted more, and I was pushed to the side in favor of two others. I will fully admit that I was jealous of them, but I didn’t wish them ill. I simply wanted to not be alone."
The look she gave me was enough to break my heart, and I was pretty sure that I didn’t have one to break. The loneliness in her eyes told me more than I needed to know.
This perfect woman, one that was so sweet and innocent that even I wanted to protect to my dying day, had no one. Everyone in her life left her... in this prison surrounded by fields and fire.
"I offered the woman an apple. That was it. It had always been my favorite fruit, and I wanted to share that with the others. Maybe that way... anyway. Shit happened, and I was put here. There was no one else... and I was so lonely."
I couldn’t help but nod my head in understanding. It sucked to be alone... no one to talk to, no noise or anything... just silence... it would have been its own form of torture.
"But before I was cast aside, I had been watching, hoping to please him. I saw how he created everything... and I figured... why not? If I had to be down here, then I would create my own world... my own people. People who would love me the way I wanted and needed to be loved."
Okay, it was official. I was going to rip all the guys apart for not realizing just what they could have had. Just how blind was Wrath to see her and reject her?!? The demon was bat-shit crazy!
"So, I made them... all seven. But I didn’t have a breath of life to breathe into them, so I took my own and divided it up into eight. One for each of us. The idea was that even if they weren’t nearby, they would at least have a part of me with them at all times."