“Raziel,” her sweet voice pulls my attention.
Nasiah has stepped out from around Conah. I hold out my hand, and she rushes into my outstretched arms. I close my eyes as I hug her to my chest. Her sweet scent fills my lungs as I bury my face at the top of her head and inhale.
Pulling back, I cup her face between my hands and look down at her. Anger flares up in me when I see the split lip and bruise on her jaw.
“It’s over,” I say, placing my lips on hers.
“Not yet,” Conah growls.
I look up at him with a raised brow. He tilts his head to the right. I follow the motion. Standing with her hands cupped to her chest and her back against the wall is Nasiah’s mother.
“She’s the one who ordered the mark,” Conah says.
Now that Rojun was dead, the death mark is void. But that didn’t mean she was innocent.
“I….I didn’t mean it,” Angelica pleads. “The angel told me to do it.”
I didn’t even have to ask her about the angel. I already know who’s truly behind this.
“What do you want to do with her, Count?” Khalid asks, turning to me. “You have sufficient reason to kill her.”
With Khalid’s blessing, I could end this bitch’s life right now and not face any consequences, but the decision wasn’t mine to make.
“I’ll allow my mate to make that decision,” I say, turning to my girl.
Nasiah’s eyes widen as she stares up at me.
“Siah,” her mother pleads. “I’m your mother. You can’t kill me.”
I watch as Nasiah turns to her mother and frowns. If she left her mother alive, I would allow it. Obviously, I’d make it so that she could never do another death mark, but I’d let her live. If she wants me to kill her, well, I’ll gladly do that too.
Nasiah turns to me. “I don’t want her to die.” Her mother visibly sighs.
“Okay,” I nod.
“However,” she continues. “I do have one request if it’s possible.”
“Whatever you want, baby.”
“My father and his wife, is there any way to make sure they reconnect and have a committed, beautiful marriage?”
Her mother screams from across the room. I grin down at my mate.
“Yes,” I chuckle. “I can absolutely make that happen.”
epilogue
The Angel
Nasiah
Raziel lifts my hand to his mouth and places a kiss on the back.
It’s been six months since I left my mother in her home screaming at me. Since then, things have changed. I finally got the wedding of my dreams. Only my close friends and family were in attendance, and it was at a beautiful lake. Razzy even bought me a brand-new dress.
Vanessa and my father were in attendance. The couple looked happy together. Raziel kept his promise. After he finished with my daddy, Romeo begged and pleaded for his wife to take him back.
Since the day Vanessa finally said yes, he has been a doting, loyal husband. The two of them decided they needed a new start, so they packed up their things and moved two states away.
