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As they drove out of the city, and headed towards the ramp he flipped the top off the gear shift, a blue button sat in the center. He pressed it, which resulted in the window to flash black, and the single ramp in front of them to become two. A fast track towards Atlanta, the hidden road was a secret path used by most beings, who enjoyed driving over the train or using gates.
“I sincerely hope that big dick energy doesn’t get us caught,” Oye finally said as she finished texting her cousins. Shoving her phone in her pocket, she wriggled further into her seat before closing her eyes. “Now, don’t get us killed, mister playboy. This witch likes living.”
Castian wanted to say something in rebuttal, but instead he counseled himself to remain quiet. Clearly he enjoyed sparing with her too much. If he continued to do so at some point he wouldn’t want to live without it. He glanced at her face once more.
Yes, he could admit that he was wholeheartedly attracted to her.
Was it because she was the most human face he’d seen since he’d been dragged into this hell? Maybe. But he didn’t want to give up the path that he’d set himself on.
“A Path that you do not need to walk.”
Black wings curved upward from the back of the extra passenger, matched in sharp contrast by their pale face. A large hand with long curving fingers clicked against the back of Castian’s seat.
“You are going back,”Ashiya said, his voice deep and throaty, a voice of nightmares.
Castian turned his eyes away from the rearview mirror and focused on the road ahead.
“As I planned to.”
“Do you truly believe that your plan will succeed?”Ashiya asked as his size shrunk. He relaxed back into the back seat as his wings retracted.“Your brother wouldn’t display the key so easily. In fact, he’d hide the book, as many as your predecessors have done before.”
Castian squinted at the road, knowing Ashiya’s words weren’t wrong. His brother had gone through so much effort in putting him in the bowels it wasn’t likely the man would make it easy to recover the very thing that damned him. “This time, he doesn’t know I’m coming.”
Ashiya became silent for a time, after a minute he finally spoke.“I wonder if your life before is worth all your effort.”
“It is,”Castian said, but then corrected himself.“It was, but—now, there isn’t much desire for it anymore. At first I wanted to return to it, the place I belonged but that is no longer the plan.”
“I know, your plan now is revenge. Vengeance. Blood spilling. Punishment…Death~,” Ashiya crooned.
“Revenge?”Castian smiled, his eyes losing light.“I wish it was as simple as that, either way I must have the book in my hands to enact it.”
“Well then Vessel, I wish you well but, do not forget to get us a taste of this witch.”
Glancing to the right, Castian stiffened at the sight of Ashiya claw-like fingers drawing along the smooth skin of Oye’s face. Her lashes fluttered as she shifted away from his touch, with a sleepy grumble.
Those cold black eyes turned towards him, the smile stretching inhumanely wide.
“If it wasn’t for your flesh and bones, I’d have claimed this one as mine. I’d drill myself into her soul and feed off her screams of pleasure as I watched the light of life in her eyes go—”
“Enough.”Castian shoved the demon’s voice back, causing its appearance to fade. Ashiya disappeared with a maddened cackle of pleasure.
Reaching over himself, he brushed the back of his knuckles against her cheek as if to wipe away Ashiya’s touch.
He didn’t like her skin being tainted by another’s touch, especially by the bastard who’d ruined his life and destroyed his world. Ashiya was a demon, he’d been the tool used to destroy Castian’s entire world.
His father had always told him to be wary of those around him, even his family, but he’d been so assured of his own strength and knowledge that he hadn’t once thought his brother hated him enough to damn him to spend nine years in the dark.
OYE
“I was hoping it wouldn’t be here.” Oye said, as she got out of the car. Her eyes on the Mansion that was a few miles up the road. The all-white building was handsome against the country backdrop, the white paint bright against the blue sky.
Magnolia trees lined the driveway, their scent permeating the air. She glanced over at Castian who leaned against the side of the car. “Plantations make my skin burn. I’d do better in a more modern setting.”
“They wouldn’t hold such an important celebration in the city,” Castian said as he walked to her side. “They hold their anniversary typically on private estates.”
She took in his appearance, the blonde hair and blue eyes; oddly fitting him better than his own dark features She frowned, something about how he stared at the estate ahead so intensely. Almost like there was a dark memory tied to the place for him.
“Have you been here before?” The question slipped from her lips before she could stop it.
