“I do not allow anything.” Sariel said softly. “It is not my call to make. In order for light to exist, we must also have dark, there will always be a need for balance.”
With that he left.
And the darkness continued to assault Cassius.
With a roar he raised his hands and screamed. “Silence!”
The Demon cowered behind Timber.
“Cross me again,” Cassius spat, “and I will tear you limb by limb, then remove every last drop of life from your pathetic body.”
Timber laughed. “I’d like to see you try.”
The Demon had lost that day.
Or had they?
Suddenly someone was grabbing my hand. I refused to look away as Timber made his way toward me. “Well, well, well, interesting… I did not think he would share such memories.”
“You can see me?”
He nodded.
“But this is a memory.”
“Of an event you are re-living through your dear Cassius, yes, I know.” Timber sheathed his black jeweled sword. “In all the times he’s relived this memory, he has never brought… you.”
Timber clapped his hands while I felt like clobbering him in the face or turning him to ice.
“He’s made it too easy. Exposing his cards so soon.” Timber leaned forward and whispered in my ear. “Until next time… Angel.”
Cassius
WATCHING MY LIFE THROUGH her eyes was painful… almost as painful as her palm against my neck.
The woman had marked me!
And I was still alive.
No longer fully human.
But returned to my Dark One state. Was it truly that easy? That all she’d needed to do was love me back? And with that love, mark me? Would Sariel make it a riddle that had been in my power the entire time?
Stephanie’s eyes returned to blue, she huddled against me, still naked as tremors wracked her body. “That was…”
“Completely irresponsible,” I teased, feeling lighter than I had… in my entire existence. Because for the first time in my miserable life… I was sharing the weight of the darkness.
With someone who had never experienced it before.
Stephanie shuddered and pulled me closer. “A little warning next time.”
I kissed her, I couldn’t help it.
Our kiss shook the air in the room, as tiny little pieces of ice formed around my fingertips, encircling our fingers, linking our hands together. Her body moved beneath mine as her lips danced across my mouth.
I’d never taken my pleasure with another immortal.
Only with humans, who later died in agony at the loss of being near me. Several of them simply gave up.