20 Chapter 20

“Really?”

“Remember when I first made you? I was very generous to you.”

Morton rolled his eyes even though he still refused to look at Seymour. “You took me away from my life. From my love.”

Seymour snorted. “Your life, your love. You had neither. You were a mere servant for some pompous lord who kept you in secret. Who had a wife and children.”

“That’s the way it was then,” Morton protested.

“I took you away from that. Made you the only one I wanted.” Seymour sighed. “You are still the only one I have ever made immortal, Morton.”

“I never wanted immortality. I just…wanted to be ordinary.”

“With your looks, you could never be ordinary,” Seymour said. “And with your voice, you sing like an angel.”

“I should have died seven hundred years ago,” he insisted. “I despise you for making me a monster.”

“Yes. I know you do. I was once as you.”

Morton did look at him then, surprised to even hear words from Seymour that implied he was anything other than the evil creature Morton knew.