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I assumed he didn’t want an answer.
“My host is rather conflicted about you.” He twirled a bit of my hair in his fingers, watching me. “I offered to kill you, but he refused. I offered to make you ours, and he also refused. I have all this power, and he seems so reluctant to use it on you. I wonder why that is?”
“Because humans are used to being weak,” I replied.
The demon’s hand stopped. He looked at me, stunned for a brief moment, then laughed.
“I hardly expected that from you,sssiren,” he said.
I shrugged. “You assumed I cared for them. You made a mistake.”
He stared at me for a moment, then smiled as he tapped his finger against his nose.
“I saw the way you fought to protect my host in that cell.” He grinned knowingly. “You have a special place for thehumansss.”
“That was before I remembered being a siren.”
He glanced at my back. “You don’t have your wings.”
“Regardless, I regained my memories this morning. Do you want to know why I became human?”
He didn’t answer, but his eyes told me that he was curious.
“Because I murdered the Guardians,” I finished.
He scratched his nose with a smile, obviously not believing me.
“Interesting story,sssiren,” he said. “But I don’t find it very credible.”
“I don’t care if you believe me or not. It’s the truth either way. I never had any love for the humans. I never understood why the king would give them such care when the sirens had more power.”
He nodded bitterly. “And the demons have more power than you both, yet somehow, we’re the exiledonesss.”
“The rejected creations of the king,” I added.
I could see the demon’s eyes flicker. I knew I couldn’t read him like I could Henrik, but I didn’t have to. I knew enough about the evil in myself to know what I had just triggered.
“Yes, but we canpossesssthe humans,” the demon replied. “With our power, we can destroy the covetedblessed creationsssof the king.”
“Or you could just kill them.”
The demon cocked his head, his eyes widening in a bit of surprise.
I raised an eyebrow at him. “That’s what I did in my former life.”
“And now you’re part human,” the demon chuckled. “Yesss, that seems like something the king would do as a punishment.”
I attempted to keep as cool a face as possible, trying to remember all the different ways I once hated the humans myself.
“If you’re looking to get rid of the humans,” I said, “let me offer my services.”
The demon laughed, his high pitch echoing off the walls.
“Offer?” he asked, holding up the Eros. “I don’t need you to offer me anything. I can take whatever I want.”
“But you can’t control sirens outside of your sight, can you?”
The demon’s eye twitched slightly, but he shrugged it away. “I can speak into their souls in ways that don’t need the Eros. Charmspeak may seduce your victims, but demonspeakpenetratessstheir souls.”
