“I wanted to get you something,” Sylvester spoke as he watched me inch toward the box. Whatever it was, it was for me, and I didn’t know how to deal with it. “You never were your parents’ angel, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be ours.”
Maddox shifted at that, as if he wanted to bring up the fact that I’d killed their brother, but he didn’t, to his credit.
With everyone watching me, I slowly lifted my hands to the box, pulling off the lid. When I saw what sat inside, my breath caught in the back of my throat, and my legs actually felt a little weak. This… this was probably the most beautiful, sweetest thing anyone had ever given me.
My hands trembled only a little as I reached for it, lifting it up and out of the box. Made of shiny silver, all metal, even the small chain that was meant to go around my head to keep it on. I gazed down at a metal mask.
The main frame of it was pure steel, if I had to guess, shiny and molded to look like a skull. The jawbone and nose holes, up to the cheekbones. Smaller, more intricate and delicate metal wire and other designs were welded onto it, giving it an eerie, ethereal, yet still spooky as fuck look. Judging from its size, once it was on me, it’d cover the lower half of my face, along with my nose and nose bridge.
“For you to wear, when we have jobs,” Sylvester explained, even though he didn’t have to. “Since you’ll be one of the performers at the Gilded Rose, I figured it would be good for you to hide your face when you’re out wreaking havoc on the town. Speaking of which—” He paused as he glanced to the others. “—whenever you’re feeling up to it, we do have another job for you, and this one doesn’t involve singing.”
I let his words sink in, my gaze still on the metal mask. It felt strong, the kind of mask someone who took great care in their craft would make, not something you could just order off eBay or Amazon. It took me a while, but I felt a smile creeping along my face, and then I said the only thing I could, because it was true: “I love it.”
I absolutely fucking loved it, and I couldn’t wait to wear it while watching someone bleed.
These guys… they knew me too well.
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