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"He can’t hear you," she said "It’s just you and h Koldo kept popping in and out, he was once againin action

"Show yourself, Zacharel! I want you to experience all that was done to e that you failed someone else That you failed the woman you love I want you to suffer and suffer and suffer"

Ss, into her nose,a piece of the lamp at her feet I have to do this

"Zacharel!" he shouted, and she swooped up the shard and launched at hi, pooling on the floor He collapsed to his knees, clutching the wound, gasping for breath But when she went in for the killing blow, he grabbed hold of her wrist and jerked her down beside hiainst one such asthe skin Not deeply, but enough to burn

Her body began to twitch, finally cooling until…she could feel nothing Neither hot nor cold, pleasure nor pain More than that, she could no longer iveness loo all around the he’d come If he will not, if he continues to refuse, I’ll take you here and now and end you anyway Let him find you violated, with your tormentor dead beside you"

I haven’t lost yet, she tried to project with her eyes I will pull through

"Zacharel!" he shouted again, head thrown back, spine arched "Have you no desire to save your female? This is your last chance"

Koldo stepped inside the fiery circle "I do I have a desire"

"How did you open the shield?" Thane de in behind hi out his arress

"Annabelle--"

"Not yet"

Unforgiveness’s tail lashed out and slashed Koldo across the cheek "Where’s Zacharel? Bring hi"

A dark play of emotions passed over the demon’s face "Very well This ends now But I won’t let you capture me and save her" His tail jerked backward and poised at Annabelle’s throat, cutting into one of the puncture wounds "If you want her to live, you’ll let me leave with her"

Finish him, Koldo Please

Blood dripped down Koldo’s cheek "No, you will not be leaving I will be killing you And I know that by killing you I a to e that I saved the world froels will die"

"Impossible They have already been saved"

"How-- It doesn’t round out, "Zacharel will not want me dead"

"What ant is not ale need"

Koldo held out his hand, created a sword of fire and struck, reh her neck

Instantly black cascaded through her ness For a fleeting

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

"NOOOOO!" ZACHAREL’S SCREAM echoed through the Deity’s throne room

He had tried to escape, and he had failed He had beat at the double doors to no avail He’d been forced to watch his woman combat his brother The revelation of the monster his brother had become had nearly destroyed hier and had kept hi for his freedom Still he’d failed, and ultiood of those she loved while the other fought for revenge, as they bled and Hadrenial cursed Forced to watch as they both died

Once again, he’d watched his brother’s head roll away from his body Only this tiside hi at air, the throne rooone and the hotel room in its place He stood in the center of the charred circle, the smoke cleared and two dead bodies at his feet

Annabelle’s robe was ripped to shreds, her neck gaping open

Koldo stumbled out of the circle as if he’d been pushed, and et back in, but couldn’t He and Thane, Bjorn and Xerxes tried to beat at an invisible wall to no avail

Zacharel fell to his knees, tears gliding down his cheeks "Can one still be saved?"