“We can make him better,” he whispered into my ear and a moan escaped my mouth. “We just have to kill him first.” I wasn’t in control, the darkness was. It didn’t give me a chance to think about how warped everything was with Julius. How wrong. “Lift your arms and forge him with the demon we brought.”
My arms lifted.
“Don’t, don’t! Please don’t!” the demon begged and pleaded with me.
“He will thank us later when he’s born anew.”
A blackness seeped out of my palms and from the darkness, the demon and creature became one.
“See? One day you will understand. All of this is necessary.”
I came back to reality as the giant dog burst through the wall. His tail was that of a serpent’s and he growled as he stalked toward us. “I thought Cerberus had three heads?” I couldn’t help but ask.
“Like the real one, I’m sure this copycat can choose how many heads he wishes to show.” Sebastian ran forward to meet him, blade in hand. Cerberus twisted his body around and swung his tail. Sebastian jumped, no, he practically flew across the air. “Duck!” he yelled, and I did just as he landed on top of the beast.
I raised up, seconds from running to help when a hand slid around me. “You must be the cure,” a devilish voice whispered in my ear. I turned and found charcoal eyes lookingdown at me. Coal black. Hair just as dark. I didn’t recognize him, but something about him looked familiar.
“Who are—”
“August!” Sebastian roared. I looked back quickly and saw murder in Sebastian’s eyes as he yelled, “Don’t you fucking dare!”
“I already took care of my job. You’re slacking, brother.” August smirked up at him. That was why he seemed familiar. He resembled Sebastian despite the difference in their hair and eyes. I briefly remembered him saying one of his brothers’ names was August as well. “I’ll take the cure while you do what you’re doing.”
Cure?Wait, his arms were still wrapped around my waist.
“Wait,” I said frantically. “Don’t touch me!”
“Let’s go, beautiful.” August drank me in and held me tighter. He grabbed my hand, and I jumped, expecting something bad to happen but remembered I had on the gloves. “I’ll show you a world you might not want to leave.”
“August!” Sebastian roared.
And I faded with him. Only it was the wrong brother that took me into the timeless place wherever it was he wanted to bring me.
Eleven
Isabella
"What do you think you’re doing?”
I shoved August away the moment he faded us inside a house. It didn’t take but a second to realize this was his home where a beautiful red-skinned demon waited on her knees for his return. She waited by a large wooden desk overflowing with papers but jumped to her feet with a dazzling smile when she saw him.
“August.” She was beaming as she spoke, then her eyes fell on me and her smile faltered. “Another one so soon?”
I had no clue what was going on. Another one? Did he bring home different women in their relationship? If so, she was an idiot for staying. “Sofia, bring our guest some champagne.”
Her eyes leveled on me before she returned her gaze back to him and smiled like he didn’t just bring another woman home.
“I think you should take me back to Sebastian,” I told him immediately while Sofia walked away.
“I think we should get rid of the gloves and get to business,” he replied, letting his dark eyes drift over me again. I said Sebastian was an ocean, well I guess that made August a vortex. There was something striking about his features that wouldpull anyone in. Suddenly, it made sense that this demon was tripping over herself to please him. He took one step and that single move held power, intensity, and promised chaos. It was the walk of a man or a demon confident in everything he did.
But as magnificent as this male was, I wanted to go back to the brother that changed the conversation a hundred times within a minute. The one that mesmerized me with his brilliant blue eyes. The one whose touch dimmed even the hold Julius held over my body for so long.
“Don’t come any closer,” I warned him.
“I just want to test my brother’s theory.”
“How did I know you’d do this?” I swiveled around to the new female voice in the room. She wasn’t there a second ago so where the hell did she come from?
