Chapter 267: Evil (2)
Cassandra shoved Phillip away. "You’re the opposite of what you preach. You took me in when I was young, and I looked to you as a father. I am done being used by men for your plans. That should have been my first sign of how awful the church is."
Cassandra didn’t like the sound of Phillip’s offer. She wanted to be free, but she wasn’t going to devote herself to him or anyone else from the church. She was done doing as they wanted.
"Awful?" Phillip chuckled, humoured by her words. "You’re going too far now, and I never said I wanted to use you as you assumed. I said to devote yourself to me."
"I am not a fool. Anytime a man asks a woman to devote herself to him, he expects something intimate. It is what the priests taught me when I was preparing to seduce Gabriel. From the moment you saw me, you must have thought you had a pretty face to use for your plans," said Cassandra.
It had taken her years to realise, but now Cassandra saw the truth. A man was a man, no matter what creature he was. Even priests could have their days of being evil.
Cassandra now believed that Phillip didn’t care that she had lost her parents. He cared about having a pretty young girl he could raise to follow his wishes.
"It disgusts me how much I looked up to you. How much I wanted to succeed and hear that you were proud of me. Vampires are evil creatures, but you aren’t too far behind them. You aren’t as holy as you claim to be," Cassandra said, seeing the real face of Phillip.
Cassandra grew concerned for the other little girls like her who only had the church. Was Phillip going to use them too and make the offer that they should devote themselves to her?
Phillip smiled just before he raised his hand to slap Cassandra. "You are too far gone. I have never asked you for your body. You’re worthless now that you’ve shared a bed with a vampire. I am asking that you will do everything I say without question. That you won’t misbehave as you are doing now."