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“I can’t believe I’m saying all of this, but it just feels right. I have to… I have to…” His eyes changed, flooding with the silvery shade of the smoke puffing to life in his right hand.

The crystal blade was here, and it no longer screamed itself away.

Scarlet light flooded the basement, coming from me. My body was covered in throbbing red veins, the Heart of All radiant and terrified, so much fear permeating my being.

Run.

Don’t let them die.

Tears now gushed down Paris’s face, horrible sobs escaping his body. “This is the end.” He lifted the blade above his head. “My one true love. I can’t fight this. I’m trying… But I… Fuck!” His arms were shaking, a vein bulging in his neck from the strain of his resistance. “I… I… Oh, shit.”

I wriggled beneath him, his usually light weight now like a boulder.

Run!

His tone changed. Fractured, deeper, and startling. “The one who could have made me complete.” The tip of the crystal blade glimmered in the glow of the Heart of All. “Goodbye, Silvanus Clarence.”

Run!

“I love you!” Paris roared and brought the blade down.

Endless Faith

Chapter Twenty-Two

Paris

Molten fury seethed through my body.

All for him.

All for the vampire who’d stolen my heart.

Kill him.

Love him.

Kill him.

Love him.

If I’d thought I was a puppet before, this took it to the next level. The moment the dagger appeared in my hand, no longer disappearing in the presence of Silv, it hungered for his death.

By all things fucking holy, it overwhelmed me. A desperate need as feral as my desire. Volcanic and deadly and furious. It hated that he was alive, its sole purpose was to extinguish his existence.

No matter how much my heart yearned for him.

Ruby veins so pretty.

Ruby heart goes dark.