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"I'm sorry," Cannon says, sinking beneath the sand, and the ground swallows him up. Screaming comes from behind me and I freeze when my eyes land on a familiar face. One I thought I'd never see again.
Older and with a little gray in his hair, Albert smiles at me maliciously, holding a knife to Everly's neck. "I didn't want to do this. I hoped it wouldn't come to this. Your father did too. You know how hard it is to end your own son's life?"
My throat goes dry when I try to speak, so I try again, swallowing down the thickness seeping into my chest. "Don't. Please. Why are you doing this? He's your son. He loves you."
"He's about to cost me everything. He's the reason I had to give up my first job. I was broke, close to living on the streets with a new wife and baby. Your dad came to me and made me an offer after he saw us together at the coffee shop. You thought I was your mate. How stupid you were." He laughs and it's vile. "I never loved you."
He presses the knife tighter to Everly's neck and he squirms. "I had to do what I needed to save myself and my family. Then you come back and complicate everything again. Getting my son involved. I tried to get him to marry Theon. I told your dad I would handle it another way but Everly is stubborn and now has to pay the price. I can't lose everything I have. I won't. Not due to my son wanting to be with a monster."
"The only monster here is you," someone shouts from behind me. "You do this and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure you pay."
Turning around, I'm met with a sharp gaze of a man who is a similar height to Everly. Same brown eyes and hair. Skin also a dark tan. His brother.
"Don't get involved, son. If you were smart, you'd get back in your car and drive away."
"If you were smart, you'd drop the fucking knife and let him go."
"I can't." Albert's eyes darken and he slips the knife across Everly's throat. Blood gushes from the wound and he falls to the ground when Albert lets him go.
"No," I scream. Everly's body twitches and I run to him while his brother tackles Albert to the ground, fighting for control of the knife.
Dropping to my knees, I pull Everly into my arms and tears fill his eyes. "Thank you for the best honeymoon I could ever ask for." He smiles sadly and I hold my hand to his wound. "I love you, Rory."
My chest squeezes and I lick at his wounds as he loses consciousness. "No," I cry, lapping at his skin over and over. He doesn’t wake up no matter how many times I try to heal him. The wounds won't close and the blood won't stop coming. "No," I say again, holding him tighter and kissing the side of his head. "I love you too. Please stay with me." Rocking him in my arms, hot tears pour from my eyes and I feel as if someone is crushing me from the inside.
Shaking and cracking around us, the ground opens up and a force pulls Everly away from me. I try to hold on to him and lose the fight when he's yanked from my arms and taken underground.
Digging at the sand, I try to go after him but the portal has already closed off.
"You," I grunt out, turning to Albert, who is lying on the ground with a knife pointing to his neck by his other son. The one who gets to live.
"You did this." Rubbing my eyes, I get to my feet and shove Charlie away and press my foot into Albert's neck. "My father promised you everything but I'll leave you with nothing." Fire rises from my tail and I shove it down his throat, burning him from the inside. Shaking and making torturous sounds, his eyes widen. When he finally goes still, I remove my tail and stare at his lifeless body. His eyes are bloodshot and empty.
"Is he…"
"Dead. Yes. Your brother was right about happiness coming at a price. Especially when you look for it in all the wrong places like your father did." Light glows around Albert's body and it disappears quicker than Everly's did. Albert belongs in hell. Everly belongs with me.
"Where are you going?" Charlie asks me as I walk toward the water.
"To find your brother."
Closing my eyes, I think of home and am standing in the center of the pits in a matter of seconds. My bones ache as they snap back into place and the cracks in my skin widen.
"I've been waiting for you. So has your mate."
I turn around. Huh. My uncle is standing behind me. "Lucifer."
"That is what some call me. Welcome home, nephew."
"Where's my father?"
"Oh, he won't be a problem for you anymore. He'll be spending eternity in the pits."
"What? I don't understand."
"He broke the rules. More than once." Standing tall, he stretches out his slender red neck, rubbing over his black horns. He can look any way he wants but chooses to use the image humans draw of him because he finds it comical. "Octavius has been causing me issues for a long time now and I really had my ass handed to me by the guy upstairs recently. We have a truce, he and I. He doesn't get in my way and I don't get in his way. It's one thing to make a deal with a human, another to kill on earth and force people down here when they don't belong."
"You're talking about the plane crash."
