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She shook her head. “No, let me—”
“I’m tired of fighting. Against you. Against this demon. I don’t have the strength anymore.”
Let’s take her, Henrik. Show her she can’t possesss you.
No.
You want her.
Yes, I want her.
Then take her.
No, I won’t take people the way you do.
Sssmall problem with that, Henrik. I’myou.
Before I could stop him, he put my hands through her hair and forced my lips against hers. She trembled and twisted under my touch, showing me how much it was hurting her.
Stop. I commanded. Not like this.
Why are you commanding me? Isn’t thisss whatyouimagined?
My stomach clenched. He was right. This was how I had imagined taking her away from my brother and her fiancé. This was how I imagined making her mine. I wanted something to belong only to me. Something that couldn’t be taken away. Something I could possess.
Dagon wasn’t the demon. I was.
He returned my control back to me. I pulled back, just far enough to speak, but not far enough to look her in the eyes.
“Save me,” I begged.
I was ripped from her side, just long enough to see the look of terror on her face.
Then everything went black.
FORTY-EIGHT
The guards binding my hands behind my back were the only reason I wasn’t lying on the ground in pain.
Every inch of my skin felt like it was on fire, even though Jacques had only burned the skin on my chest. It was enough to set my whole body on flame, however. And although I didn’t know the true location of my soul, I could feel it ache from the way it had now been split in two.
Dagon was gone.
But seeing my brother pale and bleeding from his side, it felt like I had never been possessed at all. I was the demon the entire time.
“Let her go, Henrik,”Adrian had said.“You can hate me more if you want, but at least let me keep you from destroying yourself. Let me do one honorable thing for us both.”
I knew he had changed when he said that. My younger brother cared nothing for honor. But if Esmeralda had saved him, how could I damn him again?
You can’t let them leave,Dagon had said as Adrian took Esmeralda’s hand.If he leavesss, your family is over.
It wouldn’t be because of him, I replied. I did this.
“Go then,” I huffed out, ignoring Jacques’s sword in my back. “Both of you get out.”
I made it a command. Both Adrian and Esmeralda needed to be free of me.
And I, even if there was nothing I could do to redeem myself, at least wanted to die with a clean soul.
