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I was suddenly a child again, hiding under the bed, my mom being murdered. I could still hear her screams.
Niam.
“What took you so fucking long?” Cal demanded.
Traitor.
I turned my hand into a claw and ripped Cal’s throat out.
His eyes widened in surprise, and he stared at me with horror on his face.
His mouth moved, sawing, looking for words, but then life drained out of his eyes, and he was nothing but an empty shell. It wasn’t any more of a waste of space than he’d been when he was still alive.
Good fucking riddance.
“That was interesting,” Niam said, his eyes on Cal. His voice sounded like many demons were talking at the same time, surrounding me. I shivered. The hair on my neck stood on end and tried to crawl down my spine. “He was disposable, anyway.”
“This ends now,” I said to Niam.
Niam laughed, but it sounded more like someone skinning a cat.
“Either you’re an idiot and you don’t understand how promises work, or you’re an idiot and you think I have it in me to let a promise like that go. This is all about paying debts, Braxton. Your father owes me.”
“He doesn’t owe you anything,” I said. “He’s dead.”
“Yes, but in you, I see him.”
“He sacrificed his family for power,” I said flatly.
“Did you keep your family, your pack, close?”
Guilt flooded me, but I shoved it away. Niam was a dick. He was trying to get to me. Demons played dirty.
“He lives on in you,” Niam said when I didn’t respond.
“He doesn’t,” I said, shaking my head. “That man wasn’t my father. Hauser was.”
Niam laughed again, and I wished he just fuckingwouldn’t.
“Look, I don’t make the rules,” Niam said. “Okay, actually, I do, but that’s not the point. I’m not letting you off the hook. I promised that I would kill off your father’s bloodline, and that’s what I’m planning to do.”
Niam suddenly had his hands wrapped around my throat. I didn’t know how he’d done it. He’d moved so fast, I hadn’t seen it coming. He pulled me closer, and I gasped for air as he squeezed the life out of me.
With my mouth open, Niam curled his large body over my mine and poured his dark magic into me. I couldn’t help it—the magic filled me up more and more. Every inch of me touched by the dark magic started to shrivel and die. I felt my insides turn to ash and then start to rot, and it hurt like a bitch.
I would have screamed in pain if I’d been able to breathe.
Kinley crashed into the room, human and bleeding.
“Braxton!” she shouted and ran to me. She grabbed the demon’s arm, and I felt her power surround her. She tried to do with Niam what she’d done to everyone else.
He only laughed, and the sound only hurt me more now that every inch of me felt raw.
“You can’t do that to me, rabbit,” Niam said. “You’re powerful, but even you have limitations. I’m stronger than you’ll ever be.”
“No!” she shouted and hammered her fists against Niam.
Her attack had no effect on him.
