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“You have a very special power, Raven. You have the power to make people forget things. Your voice, it’s hypnotic. What more can the Devil want, than to take something as beautiful as you and corrupt it to do his evil work.”
“How?” She turned to me. “How did you get away from him?”
I pulled up the sleeve of my shirt and showed her the symbols. “Serge Bastien was good for something.”
She reached out, tracing the tattooed lines. “I know these. They're all over his walls.”
“Angel repellent, is what I like to call it. He unknowingly gave me what I needed to keep the devil at bay.”
“And what about me?”
“There’s one thing we can do. But I don’t know if you will go through with it. If you do, we have to do it now. He can’t track me, but his hellhounds could smell your bloodline.”
“What can we do?” She whispered.
I remembered the gold thread and the piece of paper with the words carefully scribbled down on it with Elara’s magic words. “ We can bind your soul to mine.”
She took a step back, her eyes widening. “What?”
“It’s the only thing we could think of. If you bind your soul to mine, we could save each other.”
“Do you have any idea what you're asking me?”
“I know. And I’m sorry, but if I don’t, I’ll lose you forever.”
“You want to put me back in chains?” She pressed her hand to her ample chest, tears running down her cheeks.
“No. I don’t. But I’m not the bad guy here, Raven. He is. They are. I’m not here to hurt you, or own you…” those last words trailed off and her eyes met mine in a silent acknowledgement that she had already been mine.
Fuck it. “How can I fix this?”
“You can’t! I should have known you were too good to be true. Why not? A devil’s servant come to save me, right? My life ‘s already a sad, chaotic shit show, let’s add one more thing to the pile. I mean how could I possibly believe that you actually wanted me.”
“I did, I do!”
“No!” She pointed a finger at me angrily. “All you wanted was to fuck the shifter before you had to hand her off, right? Make yourself feel important.”
“Stop it! That’s not what this was.”
“No?” She whirled around on me, the amber in her eyes glowing deep as anger emanated from her. “You didn’t use me to get off, then. You didn’t use me as your, what did you call it? Redemption. Spiteful, selfish…”
“No!” I reached out to her and she scrambled just out of my reach.
“I bet you went and laughed it off with the Devil. Letting him know how good of a fuck your “little bird” was.”
“Stop it!” I reached for her and she pulled away, the gesture irritating me beyond words.
"Don't." She seethed at me and a rage surged in me.
I slid my hand into the tresses of her dark waves and pulled her to me. "You're gonna deny me?"
Her fingernails dug into my forearm, keeping me at bay. “Don’t you dare.”
I gripped her hair tighter, pulling her head back. “Or what?”
“Spectre,” my name came out with a quiver of fear, while her eyes begged me to kiss her.
"My name is Liam, little bird. I want you to remember it when I have you screaming my name."
