Blood and Fire by Gabriela Fišerová

Author:Gabriela Fišerová
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

8

James couldn’t believe he’d just done that. He’d been wishing Arkie would express some kind of romantic interest in him, and when he’d actually done it, James had panicked and rejected him. Those hurt and confused eyes would definitely haunt him for a while.

But he couldn’t even call himself an idiot. There was a good reason for this, he just hadn’t put all the pieces together until then. The simple truth was that, after all the horrible things he’d done, he didn’t deserve anyone like Arkie, and the demon would no doubt find someone better suited for showing him how life around here worked in no time. He just needed to meet another moron who would bug him into conversations.

James immediately felt a surge of jealousy rise within him and shook his head, exasperated by his own reaction. He was being jealous of a hypothetical person. How ridiculous was that? And besides, Arkie deserved to be happy. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that despite Arkemoz’s species he was a good guy. And adorably confused by everything. And—

James let out an irritated huff as he ran a hand through his hair. It didn’t matter what his dead heart wanted. He had no right to get it. At least it finally made sense to him why Neriah’s words had bothered him so much. Deep down he wished a little bit that Arkie was like how the angel had described him. Maybe then James would feel like they could be together. Though he doubted he’d like Arkemoz beyond being attracted to him if he were a scumbag.

James shook his head again, trying to focus. He would just get rid of that bracelet and leave. Possibly the country. Hopefully that would be enough for Arkie to forget about him, and everything could go back to how things were. Except James wouldn’t be present. So most likely, they would go better.

He heaved a sad sigh as he stopped in front of the house he’d been given the address to. He’d been here twice before. The first time just to check what this place was, and the second, to get the bracelet removed. But he’d backed out at the last minute. He hadn’t thought it worth risking Aegis going to hunt him down if this went wrong, and he certainly didn’t want to cause problems for Arkie because he’d definitely be at the very least interrogated about this.

But now he had a very different motivation to get this done. And Black seemed to be reasonable. James was sure he wouldn’t do much aside from asking Arkie what he knew. Well, almost sure. Jesus, he would have to talk with Arkie himself before he disappeared. He couldn’t just leave like this. He wasn’t that much of a dick.

The idea of talking to the demon right now made him feel nauseous, but there was nothing to be done about it. James had promised to come back, and he wouldn’t break that promise. Arkie deserved better than that.

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