Demon

And what would you do with that list?

You have to ask?

I need to confirm.

Confirm what exactly, Max?

What would you do?

I’d make my way down the list.

And?

And kill them. I’d kill them all.

And I’m the one in denial? I want to keep her.

You can’t keep what isn’t yours.

She wants to keep us.

Are we still lying to ourselves, Max?

He started to whine and I shut him out. Adea jumped to her feet, her entire body turning to face me before she closed the short distance between us. The sound of skin against skin resounded and bounced off the walls before echoing. I tilted my head to the side as I stared down at the only woman in all the surrounding territories who had the audacity to lift her hand to me. My cheek warmed and a smile spread across my face.

No matter how many lives we faced together, Adea never changed. She still had that spark, that fire that threatened to consume anything it touched. I loved being the one that ignited it. I’d died by her hand a number of times, and yet in this