~Zarek's POV~
For a minute, I was too stunned to speak. Too enraged to form coherent sentences, and too confused to make out the weird emotions zapping across my chest.
I felt hurt, anger, sadness… and longing, all at once. And for some weird reason, it wasn't directed at Dahlia. No, it was directed at Nyx. The woman who had broken me beyond repair in the past. The one who I have refused to speak to ever since she came here several weeks ago… and the woman who now glared back at me with fiery eyes, flared nostrils and a kind of fire that I've not seen in a long time… the kind of fire that had pulled me to her in the first place.
A long time ago, I was Jennifer.
And Derek, my half brother was me.
And Nyx was Nyx.
It had been a sunny afternoon in the late summer, and one of those that my father had just managed to remind me of how useless I was, how much of a stain I was to his so perfect reputation.