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She looked at me, her eyes a bright blue and filled with tears. I saw her mind working, and then she grabbed me. She wrapped herself around me as best as he could while the demon still held onto me, and she pulsed her magic into me instead.
She did to me what she’d done to every other monster that had attacked—she drained the darkness. For everyone else, it had taken away what they were, but for me, it saved me.
I felt her magic like a soothing salve. I couldn’t sigh with relief, but my insides warmed, and life pulsed back into me as Kinley’s power fought the darkness, holding it at bay.
Niam’s anger was hot and palpable in the room, and he made an awful screeching sound, almost like nails on a blackboard.
“That’s not how this is going to go down,” he said, and he grabbed Kinley’s throat, letting me go. “I won’t die. Don’t you get it? You don’t get to win this game.”
She cried out and clawed at his hands before she looked at me. Her eyes locked on mine.
“Take me,” she said and turned her face to Niam. It yanked me right back from my rage, and I stared at her, horrified. “Take my life instead of his; but let that be the end of it.”
Niam frowned, pausing in his attempt to kill her.
“What?”
“You can have me,” she said.
“No!” I cried out.
Niam held up a hand, the other still wrapped around her throat, silencing me. He narrowed his eyes.
“You’ll sacrifice your life for him?”
She nodded. “Yes.”
“Why?” Niam looked truly confused.
“I love him,” she cried out.
My stomach twisted, and my throat swelled shut.
“I love you, too.” Tears stung my eyes. “Kinley, I love you more than I’ve ever loved anyone. You’re everything.”
“Just let me say goodbye,” Kinley whispered.
Niam paused for a moment longer before he let go of Kinley, and she fell to the ground. He stepped back, disgust on his face.
I ran to her and pulled her into my lap, cradling her. She shivered and trembled, gasping for air. She reached up and cupped my cheek.
“I wouldn’t change any of it,” she said in a raspy voice. “All I want is you. I didn’t know it before, but I know now—all I’veeverwanted is you.”
I stroked her hair, looking at this amazing being who was my other half.
“You changed me,” I said. “You changed everything. I was the one who bought you at that auction, but Kinley, you were the one who set me free.”
I held her tightly and squeezed my eyes shut, and tears rolled down my cheeks. She cried against my chest, and I couldn’t bear to let her go. I couldn’t imagine a life without her.
“You’re lucky,” Niam said, his voice subdued enough so that he only sounded like a single person, standing in front of me. “No one has ever been willing to trade their life for another.”
We both looked at him.
He twisted his face, irritated.
“I might be a demon, made up of darkness and death, but let it not be said I don’t have a twisted heart in here somewhere. Get out of my sight,” he sneered.
I blinked at him.
