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As the high from the battle faded, I felt what I should have noticed earlier. There was a tiny bud of angelic power radiating from her stomach. It was barely detectable, but it was there. And the demon’s knife was positioned right over that spark of power.
“Let her go,” I growled, not taking my eyes away from the knife.
“I don’t think so,” Dantalion said from where he was standing beside his son and Sierra.
The fire thrummed in my blood, ready for round two. “I’m warning you.”
Dantalion’s lips twitched up in a cold smile. “It doesn’t appear that you are the one in a position to be making demands right now.”
“I killed all your demons without any trouble. What makes you think I can’t kill you just as easily?” I stepped closer but stopped when Sierra gasped. I tensed, my fingers tightening around the handles of my knives. I couldn’t throw them without risking Sierra or our baby.
Our baby.
Holy shit. Samuel had told me she was pregnant, but that wasn’t the same as feeling the evidence for myself.
“I haven’t made a physical move at you or your girl. You can’t attack me.”
“Watch me,” I growled.
Dantalion’s eyes widened, and I knew he saw that I was serious. I didn’t care about rules right now.
“You can’t kill me as fast as I can kill her,” he said. “You’re bonded, are you not? If I kill her, you die too.”
As if that’s what I was worried about. The fact that I’d follow Sierra into death was the only silver lining to this situation as far as I could see. I’d never have to live in a world without her. However, that didn’t change the fact that he was right about the killing-her-before-I-could-kill-him part.
I glanced to Sierra’s face. There was so much I wanted to say to her. I needed to apologize for all the things I’d hidden from her. I needed to ask why she’d run from me, beg her to give me another chance.
She stared back at me with sorrow. She didn’t believe we were getting out of this.
I was going to prove her wrong.
“Let her go,” I said again. “You can have me, just let her go.”
Dantalion’s smile grew. “Drop your weapons and push them away.”
I knew giving him what he wanted didn’t mean he’d actually let Sierra go. And even if he did, she wouldn’t be safe as long as he was alive. I had to end this here, today.
I obeyed his command, though every part of me wanted to throw one of those knives through his smug face. With my boot, I slid the knives across the floor toward Sierra.
“Good. Now get on your hands and knees.”
I stared at Dantalion as fire roared under my skin, begging to be let out and obliterate the entire warehouse.
“Don’t test my patience, little angel.”
I slowly dropped to my knees, my eyes locked on Sierra’s the whole time. This was for her, not forhim. Her emerald eyes welled with tears. I tried to tell her with my eyes that it was okay, that I could take whatever happened next. That she was worth every torment Dantalion could come up with.
I looked from Sierra to my discarded knives and back to her.
She glanced at the blades, and her brow creased in confusion.
Trust me,I mouthed at her.
Her expression smoothed out, and I saw the resolve come over her. She understood what I wanted. Now we just had to pray that I was right about this.
I leaned forward until my palms were flat against the cement floor.
“Let her go,” I said, feeling like a damn broken record.
