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“Come out slowly,” the Demon said.
Cain raised his hands in a gesture as if he was placating the Demon. But Cain had never placated anyone in his life.
With his hands still raised, Cain walked ahead of the Demon, as the Demon gestured him toward the hall he’d disappeared down with my mother.
We turned down a few corridors and emerged into a large room. There was a window dug out into the side of this one for some reason. I could tell it was raining outside now, pounding against the aluminum window well and running down the window, making it almost impossible to see outside.
As if there was nothing beyond this room for us.
But I knew I would walk out of here, one way or another.
“Now,” the Demon said. “Are you really Delilah, again?”
“I remember everything,” I said. “Why did I forget?”
He nodded. “I think your brain fractured, trying to protect yourself. Trying to seal away the best part of you and make you forget.” He looked at me closely. “How do you feel now?”
“Better.” That was true. The sense of shame and guilt, the tension of always trying to do the best thing I could in a terrible situation, the confinement of being a good girl had fallen away.
At my best, I was wild and free. I was the girl who had tattooed Cain just above his cock and who had made that ring slut watch Pax and me. I was the girl who had been killing since I was a kid…for good reasons. The best reasons.
My reasons.
And the girl I had been had peeked out in those moments of sheer blissful insanity.
It was time to set her free again forever.
“Don’t forget again,” the Demon added.
“How do I keep from forgetting?”
“The people you love, the connections you make...they’ve tried to make you small. Look at your mother. She was afraid of who you were…and she was supposed to be the one who loves you the most.”
“Delilah,” she cried. She started to try to talk to me.
“Shut up.” He pressed a button. She screamed.
Cain scoffed. “I’ve never made Aurora small. I love who she is. And I rememberher fucking name.”
“How do I keep from forgetting?” I cut Cain off, my focus on the Demon.
The Demon smiled at my single-mindedness, even as my mother sobbed in the background.
“You have to kill them.”
* * *
Cain
Aurora's violet eyes had darkened. It was like a switch had flipped, watching the Demon's video of her scenes.
"Here's the thing," Aurora said breezily. "There can only be one Demon."
"You're right about that–" the Demon began.
The next moment, Aurora's hand flashed so quickly I barely saw it. There was a silver flash as she pulled a knife, and the Demon didn't have time to do more than register shock before she threw it and it landed solidly in his chest.
"Not a killing blow," Aurora said lightly. "We have time to do this right, Dad."
