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His gaze locked onto mine and didn’t waiver His lips were thin His jaas locked He cracked it to ask, “Who placed the ward on me? Who wants me alive?” The tension in his body increased and the curve of his spine straightened His eyes were narrowed to thin slits
Pushing myself off the pew, I paced slowly and looked over my shoulder at him “Me,” I lied The look of shock on Eric’s face made me smile He believed me Good “You needed to realize that you can’t control me,” my voice deepened and was no louder than a whisper, “with your blood You cannot hurt me with your lies If I chose to, I could kill you with my bare hands I placed the ward I can remove it I’m the one who saved you”
His brow pinched together as his fists balled, “You didn’t save me, you destroyed ht before his nose pressed into lared down at me Every hideous ee that was focused singularly on me He extracted a brimstone blade from his pocket The movement was quick, faster than I could blink The tip of the blade touched the top of his forefinger A ribbon of scarlet snaked down his tapered finger, pooling in his palm A wicked smile spread across his lips as he held out his bloodied hand in front of me
Unblinking, I gazed at him A deep hatred flared within me, white hot Eric’s blood made my limbs feel alive, and the pit of my stomach swirled as if it were filled with butterflies The drop of red made my mouth burn It burnt for him, for his blood in all its scarlet beauty that dripped down his fingers and slid down his wrist All this warred within me, but I did not move I did not blink I could still feel, but the sensations were distant, as if they were so at the back of my mind
Without a word, I reached out for Eric’s hand His eyes ide as I took his bloody finger and softly pressed it to my lips The warm slick substance pooled onue and slid it over Eric’s finger tasting his blood Elation washed over his face Deep withinburied alive It called out tobut this… But I didn’t stop
As er, I sed Then, I lowered his bloody hand and released it I could still feel the weight of his arazed into his a away his blood with the slide of an to speak, but er over his lips
Leaning in close, so close I nearly kissed the finger that separated us, I whispered, “You no longer own me”
Eric’s chest constricted as if he’d plunged headfirst into an icy river The fear in his eyes said he was drowning in slowopen as he stared at me The only words he uttered was, “How?”
I laughed My voice was deep, deeper than usual More sensual More confident I feltinto his face, I pressed my nose to his Our eyes locked Fear flashed behind his orbs of gold “Does itaway slowly I felt the weight of my words slam down on his shoulders “You’re mine Eric I made you I claim you I deny you, and I control you Your fate is in my hands So choose Death or… ue wrapped around the lie I did not make his ward I cannot kill him, but he didn’t know
His eyes said they believed aze said he feared me
Eric cast his gaze doard Questions played across his face at a mile a minute His hands balled into fists at his sides He finally looked up and said, “I loathe you with every fiber ofI will not be satisfied to see your dead body beneath my feet” He moved slowly toward me, menace in his voice and violence in his stance “It is not enough to feel your heart wither and die in my hands You have taken from me more than you’ll ever know, and I will take it back in any way I can” His fingers flexed at his sides Eric’s eyes were liquid gold,and deadly He sed hard “What do you want from me?”
My heart felt like it was going to explode My body still reacted to him, to his blood I just learned to er danced acrossheart My words slid out with ease, “I want you to help me find the Satan’s Stone, but first, I need you to answer soed “Why did you kill Al?”
CHAPTER NINETEEN
His lips srabbed his shoulder and spun hiht he would snap off my head with his teeth His jaas so tense that he could have “Answer me,” I commanded
His eyes were slits His entire body shook as if it were ready to stranglehi happened, and I snapped I did anything it took to get it I said things to you and Collin I taunted the nun as if I didn’t know her, but when… when she fell, it ca was there” He tore his shoulder out of my hand “I don’t knohat happened I didn’t mean to kill her She… ” He looked at me from under his brow and turned away