THE DEFILED AND THE SECOND SON - Tecno-Libro

i had never thought about the word, Defiled. Even as a high school English teacher, it wasn't in my vocabulary. . i should have learned everything there was to know about the word. i should have learned everything there was to know about them. if i d seen The Defiled for what they were, i wouldn't be in this nightmare. i d have trusted the right person. . if i could go back, i'd trust him: the one that seemed the most suspicious. The one that was too painful to name now. . Sitting in the belly of hell made me brutally honest and he he was the most frightening to me. . i thought he was trying to manipulate and trick me. His messages were cryptic. His power was alarming. The fear he inflicted was menacing. it dwarfed the threat The Defiled posed. . i thought. . He stole my heart. His beauty was unnerving. He laid waste to my solitary world and turned everything upside down. Of