06-07-2022, 10:34 PM
Why?
Malachi suppressed another shiver. Her question was somehow worse than any immediate condemnation.
“Why?” he breathed, pressing harder against his closed eyes.
“Because he… he deserved it.”
What kind of an answer was that? Telling a girl that shared Lyle’s blood that he deserved being killed. That Malachi himself had killed him.
“He was so – sick, Nettie, and I tried so hard to keep that from you. From everyone. Why should someone as sweet as you have to share the same world as him? What if everyone found out the things he did, what would happen to you and your parents then?”
He was rambling, but he didn’t even know in which direction his mind was traveling.
“What if he – he tried to use you, ruin you, what if he made you into what he made me? What could I have done?”
Malachi suppressed another shiver. Her question was somehow worse than any immediate condemnation.
“Why?” he breathed, pressing harder against his closed eyes.
“Because he… he deserved it.”
What kind of an answer was that? Telling a girl that shared Lyle’s blood that he deserved being killed. That Malachi himself had killed him.
“He was so – sick, Nettie, and I tried so hard to keep that from you. From everyone. Why should someone as sweet as you have to share the same world as him? What if everyone found out the things he did, what would happen to you and your parents then?”
He was rambling, but he didn’t even know in which direction his mind was traveling.
“What if he – he tried to use you, ruin you, what if he made you into what he made me? What could I have done?”
