(Iglesia is a serialized novel, published ….rarely these days!…on Tuesdays and Saturdays at midnight ET, you can read all of the episodes by clicking on the tag.)
Mr. Diamond looked out through the rain from the hooded, hidden window of his mountain stronghold. When he heard those words in his head, he smiled. He had waited all of his life to have a mountain stronghold. He had, in fact worked incredibly hard and waited all of his life to be the kind of stupendous bad-ass evil villain ….who had a mountain stronghold. That had an army of assassins at his beck and call. That had the power of life and death over virtually everyone on the planet. He had waited all of his life…and now finally…it was all his.
And unlike in the storybooks and the movies, where the villain was unsatisfied with the power that he had ended up with, he was very satisfied. There was no man he could not kill. There was no woman that he wanted that he could not have. He had read all of the stories and seen all of the movies and he had made sure that beyond any shadow of a doubt…that he. was. a. villain.
THE villain.
Otherwise, what was the point?
