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I sahat he intended and I felt cold sweat break out all over an to thrash, to screaainst mine and sed my cry I couldn’t move my arms but I could clamp down on his lower lip, and I did until he cried out and bled

"You little bitch," he said, and he backhandedand I saw stars I think I blacked out for aI kneas on top ofunderneath hi to find purchase to punch him, to kick He had my limbs locked down "No"

I felt air on my exposed brsts, tasted his blood in my mouth when he pressed another brutal kiss on me This could not happen

"No," I yelled this tiic awoke

Just as when I’d been attacked by Sahfrom my body and crashed into a dresser on the other side of the room The mirror shattered into a h force to ees of glass protruding frohtfire, and hit him full on in the chest with it before he could think He cried out in pain and I saw the blast burn through his shirt and through the skin of his chest Scorched muscle showed underneath He didn’t move

I stalked toward him, full of fury He couldn’t be dead yet I wasn’t done killing him

He opened his eyes, and they were bleary I raised another ball of nightfire on my palm and made to throw

"Wait," he said, his voice croaky and hoarse

"Now I knohat you are," I said, and my voice did not sound like ht with starshine I could feel thein a neay and was filled with not only a desire to take revenge, but a desire to hurt I wanted him to crawl, to be humiliated I wanted hi was so alien, so monstrous, that it h so that I felt like ain

"Now I knohat you are," I repeated, and ry "You are a monster I will never led to his feet, trying to ward off another attack "Madeline, I don’t knohat came over me It wasn’t me You must believe me It wasn’t me I’m"

"Don’t you dare say you’re sorry You’re not sorry You’re sorry you didn’t succeed"

"No, I did not h my teeth "And what do you think Lord Azazel will say when he discovers that you tried to defile his only daughter?"

Nathaniel went pale as the moon I saw him tremble all over "You ht," I said "Your wishes are hardly relevant"

He fell to his knees again, held his hands out in supplication "You must not tell Lord Azazel He will killhim with every cell in my body "What makes you think that I won’t kill you?"