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“We’re leaving, sugar.” She said that to me, not king vamp.
Silv took to the sky, heading south. Watching him leave, caught between hate and love, I swallowed a whimper.
Come back.
Please come back so I can…FUCKING SLAUGHTER YOU!
Oof.
“We’ll talk,” Medusa added.
Caer’s hair billowed in the wind, her arms slowly rising into the air. “Precious one.” Her voice was as cold as ever. “I see you know what lingers within you now.”
Aidan spat on the muddy ground which was quickly becoming soupy from the storm. The air stank of burning and death, with a hint of sulfur thrown in.
“Nothing has to change,” the elf deity threw out with zero feeling. “We can still win together.”
The crystal dagger remained in my hand, my executioner training taking over, putting up steel. “You’ve done nothing but manipulate me.”
“I know.”
Well, at least she was honest.
“But we can still defeat Aidan. Come back to the glade and let me have your essence. I wish you no harm. I can give you peace.”
Aidan gasped dramatically. “Seraphim essence? So that’s what you were hiding? You crazy elf.” He roared with laughter. “Told you she couldn’t be trusted. Us deities are all the same.”
Medusa took my arm. “Let’s get out of this rain.” She opened a portal.
“I will not be like him,” Caer said. “He is a failure. His own magic weakens him, making him sick. I know you can smell it.”
Aidan interjected with, “The sorrow part, yes. But once that little shit is dead, I won’t need it, will I?”
She ignored him,
“Stop talking,” I threw back at them both.
Caer cocked her head. “There is a lot to discuss, precious one. Won’t you give me the courtesy of hearing my side of the story?”
As cold as her, I replied with a curt, “No.”
“I see. Then you leave me no choice but to tear the essence from your body. I was willing to give you happiness and safety in my glade. Now you will suffer.”
Aidan’s head snapped around, grinning at her.
“You are my enemy now,” she continued. “You have the means to end us completely. I want it for myself.”
“You can’t have it.” Aidan’s eyes shone with malice as he looked my way. “I’ll stop her, don’t worry. I’ll give you a peaceful death with no Wheel to spoil things.”
Erm, he’d better not be thinking we’d be teaming up here. Because hell to the no.
Caer grabbed him by the hair and pulled his head off so quickly I didn’t have a chance to react.
Oh. Shit.
She tossed it on the ground. “There can only be one winner here, Paris. I’m sorry you forced my hand. I’m sorry you cast me out. Lucky for you, I cannot maintain this form outside of you. Unlucky for you, I will return.” Her eyes flashed. “I promise.”
I had zero response for her, only a cold void in the space where my trust for her used to be.
