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Chapter 63 - I Will Pull you Back from the Darkness
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2024-10-29 19:42:56We sat for a long time in each other’s arms, just talking. About everything.
About Lucifer, and Lilith, and Oona. About my father, both biological and the man who raised me for my formative years. About where we go from here. About the hopes hat we have for the small life that was now growing in my womb.
No matter how hard I tried, something still niggled inside of me. The echo of the dark thoughts that seemed to invade my mind more and more often over the last few hours. Imploring me to return to the underworld. To absorb the power of the flames and to take my rightful place. To complete my destiny.
If my trip to the hells fire had shown me anything, it was that fate was not done with me yet. And that there was no way for me escape it.
The idea of there being more to come scared me. When Lilith first told me that I was the key to save the underworld, I believed her. I had no idea that she had put me on a path that would lead me down much a d
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