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Levi turned to me, his blue eyes pleading. “Ariella …”
“He’s not just saying that, is he?” I must be going crazy. “Like when a person calls me child or dear. No, you’re really his son.”
“You didn’t know?” Molraz laughed. “Oh my. Yes, he’s my son and I believe you also met my daughter, Lacey.”
So, he was the horrible father who had tortured his children. The one Levi had hated most of his life, and yet, ended up being just like him. Unless that was a lie too.
But it was true. I knew it; I could see it. The same black hair, the same straight nose, the same strong chin, the same tall and wide frame. Even the eyes were the same shade of shocking blue.
Wait … how did he know I had met Lacey?
“Now the best part,” Duncan muttered.
“I know something else,” Molraz said, sounding awfully proud. “My son here is only helping you so you can lead him to the Scarlet Hex Blade. Isn’t that right?”
The air whooshed out of my chest, and I took a large step back. I stared at Levi, my eyes round, my heart hurting. I had let him trick me from the beginning.
“Ariella, it isn’t like that,” Levi said, coming toward me.
I raised a finger. “Are you his son?”
He stopped and let his head drop. “Yes.”
“Do you want the dagger?”
“Yes, but?—”
I screamed. My heart raced, my blood boiled, my mind spun. I couldn’t think, I couldn’t act. I was in a room full of enemies, and the worst one was the demon I had let get close.
I rounded the glass display and went to the other side of the room, where I had a little more space for myself. I needed space, I needed time, I needed to think.
Levi had tricked me. He played me from the beginning. It probably wasn’t in his plan to be bonded to me, but it had turned out in his favor, because with the bond, I would never suspect a thing … why he was coming with me, why he was willing to help me. But the first time I went to him …
“You knew who I was when I met you at that club,” I said, my voice low. Levi stared at me. “But I didn’t agree to your terms. I left. What would you have done if I hadn’t summoned you?” He remained quiet. “Answer me!”
“I knew you were desperate and would come back.”
“And if I didn’t?” Again, he hesitated. “Don’t lie to me!”
“I would have created an opportunity.” He stared at me, his eyes pained. “I would have bumped into you outside Sylvie’s house.”
I pressed a hand to my chest. “You went to Sylvie looking for me.”
Levi nodded. “Yes.”
“Was she in on it?” She had been the one to tell me about him.
“No, she wasn’t.”
That didn’t make any of this better.
Holy shit, it was all there. All the clues. I even remembered now how he mentioned a magical weapon, as if giving me an opportunity to confess about the dagger. The way he looked at me when that angel mentioned the dagger.
My knees weakened and I crouched down, breathing hard.
From the beginning, he knew who I was and all he wanted was the damn dagger.
Molraz had brought the Scarlet Hex Blade to Archangel Rhodes. We all had seen it, but we didn’t know what the dagger was for, what it could do. Except Archangel Soren. He must have known because he paled when Rhodes held the dagger, and he called him traitor and attacked him.
