“Ever since she perished due to her own stubbornness, I vowed that once I managed to summon her back to my side, I would bind her to my will,” Adrian declared. His voice carried an almost romantic sense of desolation. “Only then will she stay with me forever.”
His eyes held a complex mix of emotions as the wind whipped around his face. While there was a hint of fondness and adoration in his gaze, it felt almost insulting to feelings of true love to call it that. What might have been pure feelings once upon a time had long been marred by loathing, inferiority, and rejection. Adrian had poured everything into his love for Eleanora and had been met by nothing but indifference. Over time, his feelings warped into something unrecognizable, driving him to an obsession that now controlled him. A strange sense of sorrow hit me as I realized, in another universe, that was a dark path that I could have easily fallen down.
