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What are you doing?

What do you mean, brother?

Stop calling me that. I’m not your brother. You made that clear when you and father disowned me.

An unfortunate event.The sarcasm was clear in his voice.

I was eight years old! You both wanted me to kill that child.

Weak.

Not a monster.

You are a monster. We all are. Look at how Snow is terrified of you.

Keep her name out of your mouth.I reared up and landed hard on the ground.

Snow? We’re friends.He said matter-of-factly.

The fuck you are.

Do you want to find out? Although, do you think she’ll look at you the same now?

You did this on purpose, didn’t you?Realization was slowly setting in. He set me up.

Brother.The tone in his voice told me everything I needed to know.

Damn it. It was all some ploy to get me to shift in front of her- show her the person I really am and I fell for it.

You’ve gotten smarter, at least.

Why are you such an asshole?

You left me.His words held a bit of pain in them.

You banished me. You gave me no choice.I barked back.

You could have stayed and fought.

Fought? Fought against who? There was no way father was going to let me stay- not after I disappointed him.

You could have tried.

Tried? I would not kill children. Why do you care?

He pawed at the ground.I don’t care.The asshole was back. The brief glimpse of his humanity was gone.

I glanced over my shoulder and saw Snow was still standing there watching.

Why are you even here?

Looking for Snow.

I told you. There’s no way you’re getting her. I will kill you if you try.

Brother, brother. Calm down. If I wanted her dead, I would have killed her in the town you two just came from. You said yourself; she is no longer a child and by the sounds of last night, I would say no longer a virgin.

I lunged after him.