When his voice rang out in my home, I decided I must have misheard: the man who threatened my husband was the very same guy I once left—at my parents’ insistence... But he had become unrecognizable. Both his appearance and his soul had changed. There is no love left in his gaze—only a strange, unnatural flame. Now he intends to take me, to force my husband to hand over the mysterious Stone.
He is cruel, domineering, and without principles—nothing like the one I remember. And is he even human at all? Yellow eyes, a beastly roar, and retracting claws make it clear: no.
But to me, it’s all the same. I owe him nothing! Let him first return my daughter...
Our daughter.